The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-09-21

\ nc BURNEY School for Boys. New
N York city, opened its fourth
year last Monday with every
prospect that Its enrolment will increase
from 100 to 130 pupils. 1t will thus
share in the unusually large school en-
rolment that Is 90 general this year.
This school was organized 10 help
supply the demand for low priced
preparatory school of superior grade.
As II is housed in the West Side Y. NJ
Q. A, with its excellent equipment, II
has many features not possible with
smaller or unendowed preparatory
schools. Through the association II is
able to offer to Its students the use OF
two gymnasiums, one of them out of
doors; large swimming pool, club and
game rooms Of the boys department,
well equipped cafeteria and a large,
we'll organized library.
McBurney School Is able to add to its
manual training course already existing
a course in shop work In connection with
the technical department Of the asso-
citation. The West Side branch has re-
Gently installed a large technical equip
ment which offers unusual opportunities
Tor q boy to get some experience in shop
work. These courses aim not only to
develop hand skill but also to inform q
boy of the commonest principles of con-
struction In wood, metal and other ma
terials They will be supplemented by
many talks on construction work. espe-
cially as 1t applies to modern buildings,
tunnels, bridges and dams. BY this
means boy will not only acquire q
good deal Of useful and necessary in
formation regarding the world about
him but will be able to decide pretty
definitely whether his choice OF q career
lies along these lines.
McBurney School is doing much to-
~ mol o. e.
careers by Offering q course in occupa-
tons: This course. during the first term,
viii be general study of the field of
vacations and the development of stand
ards for the right choice Of a life career
In the second term each boy will choose
the vocation which interests him most
| and will study It in detail, writing
weekly reports in various phases of 1t as
1t appears to him. This course will be
| supplemented by trips to museums, shops
| and factories, and by assembly talks
| given by men prominent in their voca-
| lions. These men will be chosen also
because they are excellent speakers
Thus the theoretical course in occupa-
lions will be supplemented by much
practical material.
McBurney Is also offering q course in
vocational civics, which aims not only to
teach the principle Of city government
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community. but also aims to acquaint
aim with the right and wrong of the
vexatious social problems of to-day.
| What are his duties toward his family ?
What does he know about family bud
get malSingf How well informed is he
about choosing home, its decorations
or its equipment? How well prepared IA
he for the most important partnership
he ever makes? What are his duties as
Il ~ ~ o4a
tude toward adjoining property owners?
What personal service does he owe to
his street or his ward? How may he
help improve the social qualities of his
neighborhood? Aside from his relations
with the different city departments, what
service does he owe to his community
How may he, as an Individual, influence
right community movements? What
definitely can he do toward the improve
ment OF his city. socially, morally OF
esthetically? These are some of the
1 questions which this course in vocational
civics will attempt to help the boy an
swer.
l McBurney School Is attempting tc
meet the new educational demand that
the modern boy shall receive a many
sided training. The school frankly rec
ognizes that he needs to be developed
physically, mentally, vocationally, so.
cially and morally. and through its
broad programme aims to satisfy these
needs. Perhaps more than any other
boy the New York city boy should be
unusually well equipped, fer the COM
petition in this city is much keener thar
elsewhere His must be a more diversi.
fed programme than that OF the ordi.
nary boy, and 1t certainly must include
far more than mere preparation fol
college. It Is especially for the New
York boy that McBurney School has ar.
ranged its programme for It is to be O
New York school for the New York boy