Norwich bulletin., 1916-09-23
MEDICAL INSPECTION IN SCHOOLS
Over Three Thousand Pupils Examined Inspector Cassidy Since Last March-Has Reported 1855 Eye Cases-Over Score of Pupils Excluded Until Conditions Were Cor rectedLReports of Manual Training and Domestic Sci ence Activities During School Year.

therefore derive more practical value from it.
 The course given the previous year consisted of a set of exercises design ed to teach the boys correct tool pro cesSes, a course in which aech project he was to make was furnished him and when these were completed he could use the time left to make any thing he wished. Nearly every one completed the projects assigned and several made larger and more useful things of their own design, but the number was small compared to the number who wanted to do extra work but had not completed the work laid out. l found that the most interest was shown in working out problems of their own design rather than in the projects where they were given drawing with dimensions which offered no chance of showing their own skill except the degree they had attained in the handling of tools.
 So this last year I resolved to plas a course which if possible would be as interesting at the beginning of the year as toward the close and the re- suit has proved very satisfactory.
 The main idea in elementary manual
 training work is not to make the boy an expert at handling tools. but to make him use his thinking powers in correlation with his hand work. So changed the course from one of the eooA pIoceSSeS to one or problems In types of construction in which several articles could be made all containing the same kind of joint The tool pro- cesses follow naturally from simple to more complex as the order of types of construction from simple to more com plev are taken up.
 t, During the coming year intend +o spend more time in applying arith- metfc and drawing to the work in the school shops. With the kind per mission of the owners, I hope to ar range local excursions to the indus tries of the city with the idea of ac- quainting the boys with the different plants, what they do there and how they do it.
 Many of the boys will probably come in direct contact with some of thees industries in a few years and Will know better what they would live to follow for an occupation.
 More Room Needed.
 Under this plan of larger and more useful things we need larger rooms for our shops so we can have more benches, which the boys can make, and more room for storage of articles in process of construction and during the process of staining, vanishing etc. Especially is there need for more room at Broadway school where the larger number of classes meet and large classes are the rule. A shop tWlce as large as the one in use now would be none too large and would tend toward increased efficiency in the work.
 Last fall special class of overaged boys from the sixth grades was or ganized and came to the shop at the Mt. Pleasant Street School for man ual training work These were boys who had no prospects of going to the academy and college and couldn't seem to grasp the school work and would probably soon leave school to go to work The class was formed with the idea of stimulating their in torest in the regular school work and so keep them in school as long as pos sible. The whole class was very earnest in the manual work and excel l lent work was done. Practically the same course was given them as that l of the seventh and eighth grades. | correlating as closely as possible the l shop work to the schoolroom.
 l am in no doubt of the success of | the experiment. Two left school to | go to work near the close of the year. | All but two or three were promoted | and with the exception of the two members of the class who left at the | close of last year. nearly all expressed | thetr intention of returning to grad i uate from the grammar school
 Domestic Science Report.