The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1905-11-16
Former State Superintendent
Harvey Speaks in Kenosha
Friday Evening
PRACTICAL WORK NEEDED
superintendent of Model Training
School Urges More Manual Train
ing For Boys and Girls in the
Wisconsin Schools

L. D. Harvey, former state superin-
tendent and uperintendent of the
Stout manual training school at
Menomonie, hit some sledge hammer
blows for manual training in his adj
dress before the teachers of the city
and county at the teachers institute
last night. The address was given
at the High school auditorium and
crowd of fully four hundred people
gathered to hear the popular educator.
Prof. Harvey has always been
a great favorite among the teach
ers of Southern Wisconsin, and he
was given most hearty reception to
Kenosha. Mr.. Harvey spoke for an
hour and the audience would have
been perfectly willing to have re
manned for another hour to listen to
the continuance of the interesting
presentation of the important sub
ject.. - -, - Il
Mr.. Harvey was one of the pioneers
in the introduction of manual train
ing in the public schools, and he is
justly proud of the work that has
been done along this line in the
schools of Wisconsin. When Mr..
Harvey first took hold Of the Office of
the state superintendent there was
but one manual training department
in the state, but now largely as re-
suit of his agitation in favor of such
departments, every large city in the
state has its teachers Of manual train
ing, and the work has been adopted
in many of the smaller cities.
Mr.. Harvey. in his address Friday
night, declared that both teachers
and pupils were overworked on use
less stuff, and that manual training
came as the one remedy for this con-
dition. He declared that six hours of
study was too much to ask of any
growing boy or girl, but that six
hours of school with generous sup
ply of practical instruction was just
about the right dose.
Mr.. Harvey stated that manual
training was not alone for the boys
but for the girls as we'll, and'he urged
the immediate b1ishment in the
schools of Wisconsin departments of
domestic economy in whichsthe girls
might be taught to cook and to sew
and other useful arts. He spoke of
the work that was being done by the
girls in his own school and told of
how manual training and domestic
science are taught in every grade
from the lowest room IN the graded
school to the last grade in the High
school.
He stated that this work had brought
to The boys of Menomonie a new in
terest in schools and that the classes
were filed up to the senior year in
the High school.
Speaking of the history of manual
training in the schools of the country
Mr.. Harvey stated that twenty years
ago a committee was appointed by
the National Teachers association to
investigate plan for adding manual
training to the National Curriculum
and that after short investigation
the committee denounced manual
training.
Since that time schools Of this sort
have been Established in every one of
the larger cities of the United States,
and the members of the committee
are among the most ardent Supporters
of these departments.
During Friday afternoon Superin-
tendent Harvey found time to inspect
the manual training department at
the Durkee school, and he paid high
compliment to the work that is being
done by Mr. Woodstock in Kenosha.