Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1904-01-23

lowed, and the Arion Band of 3 pieces
discoursed sweetest music.
Through the generous cooperation of
the County Board of School Commits
sioners the Model School has been or
gained, consisting now of the first,
second and third gr1des, numbering l4S
pupils. Under the immediate direction
of the Principal these are under the
tuition of three critic teachers whose
salaries are paid by the county. As be-
fore stated, the Senior Class also does
daily work in this Department, and to
these it would be difficult to estimate the
value of the practical work so executed.
Certainly they will be all the better pre-
pared to meet and solve the numerous
and troublesome problems each will en-
counter when placed i'll charge of the
average district school.
Through the public spirit and gen
crosby of Frostburg citizens, who paid
all expenses, we made large, varied,
beautiful exhibit of School work at the
State Teachers Association in July.
Not only so-we We're enabled to send
more than 80 photographs, i'll size 10 by
II inches, of work done i'll Primary
Manual Training by the Model School,
to the National Educational Association,
at Boston, where they attracted univer-
sal and most favorable comment, re-
tlected later in many educational periodi-
Gals. Still later, by request, these photo
graphs were placed on exhibition as
models i'll the permanent vacation
schools Of Chicago, where they also en-
loved much commentator.
Through the assistance of the Allie
gany County School Board, the princi-
Dr., Il
Training has become IAN integral, es-
sential feature as in the system of ev
erv other progressive county, municipal
ity or State. Indeed, Maryland, in its
appropriation for the opening and main
tenance of this School, has set the seal of
approval upon it. and it is sincerely
hoped by the thousands who have wit
messed it's accomplishments that no back
ward step will be taken now Manual
training is complementary to the precep-
tive, the practical illustration and de-
velopment of the theoretical. In the
better words of State Superintendent
Joyner of North Carolina:
Every college for the training of teachers
ought to have "A well-equipped manual train
ing department. Many people cannot think
accurately or express themselves accurately
in oral or written speech because they have
never done anything accurately. Manual
Training equipS a teacher to give instruction
to a student more concretely than does mere
literary training. Frequently, a boy or girl
who could not be interested in mere book
tasks and who would, therefore. contract
habits of Incidence, inactivity, inaCcuracy,
and slovenlinesS of thought and expression,
would gradually acquire habits of exactness
and neatness by working with pencil, scis-
sors, knives, and simple tools for working
i'll wood.
Miss Harriet Cecil Magee, of the justly
celebrated Oshkosh Normal School, says
'the purpose of all construction work
(manual training) i'll connection with
whatever branch it may be taught is-tO
ritali.e thought 1t is this exercise,
she says, that makes 'children happy i'll,
the school-room. And here, as there
"the children i'll our Model Department
iJr@ To come 10 SchOOI.'
Mr.. Murdaugh himself, after years of
experience i'll teaching, defines Manual
Training as thinking and doing" Is it
not morc-affordins the hand opportun-
ity to certify by construction the truisms
of tuition?
The Principal recommends
/, That the Course be arranged to pro-
vide for Model School of eight grades
aud Normal period of four years-the
first two to academic, the latter two to
purely professional work This will re-
quire an additional building for library,
laboratories and Manual Training
., That two teachers be added to the
rorpS-one supervisor of Manual Train
ing and primary work: the other for
music, public speaking and physical
education.
3, Provision for lighting the building,
instituting il library and laboratories.
4, Provision for making heating APP
paratus adequate, and
>, For enclosing and identifying the
grounds, laying Il pavement in front,
erection of il house for the principal and
a dOrmitory for students.
1t is believed that State Normal
School, No. 2, has demonstrated that it
has place in the States educational
system that should on no account be
vacated; that it would be poor economy
to starve an infant so promising of good.
The State is able and willing to care for
the interests of its growing children, to
whom few needs are greater than that
which calls for trdined teachers-those
which come only from efficient Normal
Schools.
In round figures Mr.. Murdaugh holds
that the School needs for the next two
years $2500O-a goodly portion of this
sum for additions, equipment and other
permanent improvements.