New Britain herald., 1915-10-12
FALL BOOM NOW ON
 AT THE Y. M. (. A.
All Lines Active, Secretary
 Barnes Report Shows

rectors of the Y. M. c. A. was held
 last night. General Secretary C. H.
 Barnes reported concerning the ac-
 tivities of the past month and made
 several announcements on the coming
 winters program. MT. Barnes re- | port follows:
 | Interest in the different associa- | tion activities is unusually good. ! Men who joined for the summer are | renewing their mem berships for the
 year, many new members are being
 added each week and some former
 members are coming back to the as-
 sociation. Indications point toward
 successful year for all departments.
 Physical Department.
 MT. Slater in his first month as 1 physical director, has succeeded in
 obtaining a larger attendance in the
 gymnasium than for any September
 during the past five years. Sixteen
 gymnasium classes a week are con l ducted in addition to special exercises | given to individuals. The attendance ] for forty-six sessions was 765. Spe- | cial attention is being paid to stimu- 1 lating interest in bowling. A weekly prize is given for high scores and | three men teams are bowling against each other. A bowling team went to the Hartford Y. M. c. A., last Thursday and contested against their team They will return the visit this month. This is the first of a series of exchange visits with neigh boring Y. M. C. As Two health talks were given by the physical di- i! rector to the school and employed boys. One hike was taken by the younger boys. Three men and eight 1 boys were taught to swim. Attend ance in all activities of the physical department, exclusive of baths was 1902. About 2,600 baths were taken. The physical department 1 committee met and outlined the work of the season. Sub committees care for aquatics and and bowling. The l physical department co-operates with l the Boy Scouts and the boys are given ] swimming tests by the physical di- 1 rectors for their merit badges.
 Educational Department.
 MT Washburn has laid out very l comprehensive course of night school l subjects approved by the educational | committee. Both as regards courses 1 and instructors this years program is without doubt the best this associa- tion has ever offered to the young men of the city. It is significant that many of our young men who have not heretofore thought much about evening study are enrolling this year for night school work.
 Glasses are already in session in the following subjects: English for foreigners, mathematics, architectural and mechanical drawing, structural steel and machine design.
 ''The architectural drawing class this year, is in charge of Frank E. Perkins of Hartford. He has had a number of years experience as
 practicing architect and as teach
 CT of architectural drawing. We feel that these who study under MT.
 Perkins will have an unusual oppor- tunity to get the special training they need in any branch of architec- | tural work, and especially as all of | the instruction is individual
 'The class in English for Foreign | CTS affords those who have come to l this country recently, a fine chance l to improve and perfect their English. l This class is not large and a great | deal of personal attention is given to | each person by the teacher.
 "A class in business English and l letter writing is under consideration, l and although no direct advertising | has been done, almost enough pros poets have been secured to warrant 1 starting this class.
 | '"The salesmanship class, under the | leadership of MT. Jennings, who so
 successfully conducted this class last year, will start next month with an | opening talk by A. J. Birdseye of | Hartford.
 1 At recent meeting of the edu- 1 cational committee it was recommend ed that special advisory committee | investigate the possibility of adding | to the night school subjects course | in accountancy This committee,
 consisting of E. w. Christ, Edward
 F. Hall, George P. Spear and George
 Kimball, considered that such 1 course would fill a real need, and ] recommended that the Pace & Pace course be adopted. Upon this recom-
 mendation William c. Woodford of l Hartford was secured as the instructor
 of this class, which will begin its ses- | sions tonight. The opening of the class will be marked by an address | by George l.. Vannais, president of
 the state board of accountancy
 Foreign born men, who are pre- l pairing to take their first citizenship | papers. received instruction from | Judge r. B. Hungerford and Judge w. 1 F. Mangan.
 "The enrolment in the educational ] classes this year it little ahead of | that of last year. with indications | that as the other classes begin the l enrolment will be considerably bet 1 ter than for previous years.
 Social Work.
 '"The course of monthly entertain l ments has been arranged for with