The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1913-05-08

or agricultural work, and to see the
girls in the intermediate schools
learning domestic science and doing
the higher grades of Industrial work.
On one of my recent visits to the
southern islands I inspected the in
dustrial classes in a primary school,
where found 1900 boys making desk
baskets for large business house
in Chicago. In that same school
there were some 600 girls embroider-
ing waists and making laces for a
house in New York City, and all over
the islands in every primary school
we find the boys and girls making
things that are of commercial value.
In our trade schools throughout the
islands beautiful work is being done,
especially in furniture making. At
the recent exhibition held in Manila
the display of furniture made by the
trade schools of the islands was one
of the incest ever seen in the orient.
At this same exhibition were large
displays of laces, embroideries, iron
working, garden products, and in
fact everything that can be made in
schools that dedicate a great part Of
their time to industrial training.
In the intermediate and high schools
particular stress is given to the
teaching Of domestic science to the
young ladies, these courses including
cooking, sewing, care of the home,
infant feeding, and the like.
The schools have devoted especial
time to physical education and
athletics. Every school building is
first provided with grounds suitable
for athletics and athletic training.
All of the high schools throughout
the archipelago are provided with
beautiful grounds for baseball and
track and field events. Of all forms
of athletic sport brought into the
Philippine islands baseball has taken
the greatest hold upon the Filipino.
The whole country from north to
south has gone crazy over the game,
and believe I am safe in saying
that every municipality in the Phil
ippine islands has one or more base
ball teams. They play good baseball,
the best teams defeating the best
American army teams in the
islands, and believe that the bet
ter high school teams would win a
majority of games played with the
best high schools in the United
States. In the track and field the
Filipino is fast coming to the front,
and some Of the records made at the
recent carnival meet leads us to be-
lieve that before long the Filipino is
coming to America and is going TO
win and carry away medals of Amer
lean gold. Athletic instruction is
given to the girls as well as to the
boys, and in all of the schools we
find the girls playing such games as
are played by young ladies in the
United States. Ten years ago such
a thing as girl playing tennis or
basket ball, or in fact taking part in
any athletic sport was unheard of.
Today they are one of the big fea-
lures at every meet. During Feb
ruary Of this year the first far east
ern Olympian was held at Manila.
Japanese, Chinese and all oriental
countries were invited to take part
in This meet. The two principal
countries to send baseball and track
and field teams were China and
Japan. This was the first time in
the history Of the world that China
sent out a team of athletes to contest
with those of other nations The
Filipinos won nearly all of the events
of the meet and proved them
selves far superior in athletics to
either the Chinese or Japanese. If
the Filipino continues to progress in
athletics as he has in the past five or
six years it is hard to tell where he
is going to stop. The government
expects to send a track and field and
baseball team to the Panama exposi-
tion in 1915. After the exposition
these teams will make tour of the
United States, and everybody who
has seen them perform in the islands
predict that they will win the ma
jority of games with high schools
and colleges throughout this country.
In addition to the public schools
of the Philippines there is system
of private schools that have been Or
gained since the occupancy of the
islands by the Spanish. These
schools are found in every city in the
islands, and in general have done a
great deal for the civilization and
uplift of the Filipino. The univer-
sity of ST. Tomas, located at Ma
Mia, is the oldest university under
the American flag. Up to the be-
ginning of the year 1910 most of