Norwich bulletin., 1914-05-15

school are tradesmen and earning power,
 success his graduates are meeting with and what lines of work they are following up. Last year, said Mir. Hitchcock. it cost only S56 per capita to maintain the New London Training and Industrial school
 Effect on Community.
 The next thing to be considered is the effect of such a school on the com- munity According to statistics it is shown that boys who leave school at the age of If work at comparative ly low wage. The technical boy soon overtakes the unskilled lad who left grammar school at the age of 14 years. His extra wages are spent in the com munity in which he lives and so he Is much more valuable to the community. Part Time School.
 In conclusion MT. Hitchcock spoke of the type of school that seems most efficient. This is the part time school for boys. The boys are divided into classes of even numbers, say twenty, one class going to school for week while the other class of twenty boys enters the trade shop. At the end of every week the classes change places the school boys entering the shop and the boys in the shop entering the school. In this school at the end of five years the boys are skilled work men.
 MT. Hitchcock said in his opinion such a school could be started in Nor ! wich by merely enlarging the N. F. A. | or utilizing some adjoining building. Mir. Hitchcock was greeted with a hearty burst of applause as he con- cluded his talk. He afterwards an- swered number of questions relative | to the time devoted to the scholars and the amount of work done in the ! school. In answering the latter ques- tion Mir. Hitchcock read detailed statement of the work done during one year by one of the girls at the school. This account showed that she had made approximately 150 useful articles | Of clothing. When he was asked if he thought that the part-time schools de- | tracted attention from the academic studies Mir. Hitchcock said not. and that on the contrary they arouse in- | terest in the school work.
 | Principals Wife Speaks.
 President Branche then said that the
 not being able to secure lantern slides for the evening. He then introduced Mrs F. S. Hitchcock, who gave a very interesting account of what the girls ] in the school accomplish during the four year course. The first year is tals of sewing. The girls are taught crocheting. how to operate a sewing
 machine and the drafting of patterns 1 In the second year dressmakinE is taught and tailoring is taken up in the third year. The girls make long
 winter coats during this year. suits
 and make hats. starting with only the
 wire frame. In the senior year the girls choose either cooking or sewing
 The cooking department covers the preparation of many kinds of foods
 preserves, etc. In the sewing classes
 the girls make not only suits and hats but even their own graduation dresses Mrs Hitchcock said that this work is practically self-supporting as the girl: furnish all of their own materials Mir. and Mrs. Hitchcock were giver
 a vote of thanks.
 There were a number of pictures ol
 exhibition showing the different de partments and the work done In tn, | New London Manual Training and In | dustrial school.
 Refreshments of ice cream. cake ant punch were then served under the di rection of w. H. Somers who was as sisted by Misses Julia A. Mckay, Por tia F. Branche, Maud G. Lathrop, ant Rena B. Murdock The tables in tn,
 dining room were prettilly decorated 1 with flowers.
 On the tables in the hall were twi very beautiful baskets of flowers fur nished by Otto Ernst. After the meet ing one of these baskets was present ed to Mrs T. c. Murphy and the othe was presented to Mrs. Hitchcock