The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-06-02
new KIND OF SCHOOL
A BOAT TO START in SEPTEMBER
TO GO AROUND THE WORLD
Boys Are to See the World as They
Study-Sugsestion for a Household
School for Girls on the Same Lines.

There is now and then something
new under the sun, even in this day
when we think we know everything
and have seen everything. The new
thing l refer to is novel kind of
school for boys which originated
somewhere on the Atlantic coast and
is nothing less than school maintain
ed on an ocean steamer constructed
fer the purpose, and which sets sail in
September for a cruise round the
world This school on the ocean wave
takes boys from fourteen to nineteen;
they start at just the time all other
schools open, and they stop at fifty
ports In Europe, Africa and West IN
dies, covering $4,000 miles, returning
in the following June.
on board a regular preparatory
school for boys is conducted, but man
aged just as a training ship of. the
navy, and the discipline is rigorous.
The curriculuR is so planned that OBJ
Ject lessons are constantly being given
at the different places at which the
boat stops. The boys are to be accom-
panied on shore by members of the
faculty. and while they viii be enabled
TO see the world, they are not allowed
to follow their own sweet will The ship
is planned and built for this school, and
contains q music room, library, print
ing presses, photogra phing room, gym
naSium, laboratory and scientific mu-
scum. There is to be a band on board,
and due time will be given for recrea-
ton. The ship is fitted with small
launches and twelve sailing and rowing
cutters. The boys are trained in the
managing of the boat, at infantry drill,
and given full nautical training The
scholars take no part in the working of
the ship, as there is a crew for that,
but are instructed how to manage the
boat If necessary. 1t simply adds a
great deal of practical training to the
regular course, and gives the scholars
the great advantage of seeing the
world as they study it,
There does not seem to be any real
reason why this kind of a school should
not be a great success One advantage
held out by the managers of this
unique scheme is that it removes boys
from the temptations Of cities, which
surround them in most schools. 1t all
sounds very well, but it is of course a
question as TO its working out. The
faculty may have it's own troubles in
keeping the boys together in foreign
parts, and il is easy to see that the
ship may have to be held sometimes in
order to collect some boys who have
slipped away from teachers in charge.
Boys are anxious to get at inside facts,
and a pretty tight rein will have to
De held by those at the head of expe-
ditions in foreign countries. No one
will envy the instructors their jobs,
but that the idea is a good one cannot
be denied.
Now If someone would start a school
for girls, not on a boat, but In a large
house, where they would learn the de-
tails of homework. becoming good
cooks, dressmakers. and learn the
thousand and one things that women
ought to know and are supposed to
know, there would be less complaint on
the part of husbands. No originality
is claimed for this idea, as practically
this is what every industrial school is,
but what is here meant is that a girl
who has been graduated from school
or college should take a one-year
course in such a domestic school,
learning how to cook and sew. What
a very good time a dozen girls could
have in a school of this kind, if they
took turns in preparing the meals,
busting, sweeping, having entertain
ments and living nationally as they
would in their own homes. Many a
girl will learn a great deal while hav-
ing good time, whereas in school the
very same thing might be regarded as
a hardship.