Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1921-10-21
MANUAL TRAINING
AGAIN IN SCHOOLS
S-XTY-TWO BOYS AND ONE GIRL
ENROLLED FOR WORK
p%ols of Middlebury High and Graded
Enthusiastic Over Revival of
Course Dropped During War


>lyty-two boys and one girl have en-
YcDed in the Manual Training course
w1lch was restored to the curriculum
O.! he Middleburv high school at the
rsrInning Of the present term after
- omission Of several years on account
O.. circumstances brought about by the
".
he pupils are unanimous in their
enthusiasm over the course, says the
leather, Thomas f. Kinney of Oswego,
y T., and consider the forty minutes
spent at the bench with their saw and
P.ane and other tools as the most in
te-esting of their days work
The room formerly used for the
coarse has been converted into a gym
naNum, but the new quarters for the
as"'rant carpenters are not less COM
n liOus and well apportioned. A new
Aoc has been laid, the older boys help
n, materially with the work, the walls
hsr- been painted white, the benches
-ecalred and improved, the tools have
o5tu cleaned and hung in their proper
V4a. es on the wall or rack, all of which
1a; made the room a very neat little
wt-kshop.
'lr. Kinney found that the oldest
7c.s had already become acquainted
w. the simpler tools and were of
.->.t help TO him in putting the shop
L order The first lessons OF the
classes have varied with the expert
1ot' Of the students Several OF the
boy. were busted this past week in
-7a storming a board into pretty tie
-a>A. The teacher made one for him
ST. and explained the steps in detail,
seeding the finished rack within view
10. model One OF the boys has been
4t. 10 forge ahead Of mis- classmates
ar IS hoping to build a table within
iee days While some of the pupils
az permitted to advance as rapidly as
IT,. caD their instruction is not rush
e. said Mr Kinney, although every
s-, uragement is given them in the
p-a' rice both at home and in the class
-o,-l of the lessons taught
le classes have each forty minute
p2. ID in the workshop every day The |
81 school boys will be pushed to
g ms. limit i'll order to crowd into their
cc@-,e before graduation as much as
o,.ible. but the boys from the grade .
Sc 0ls will be taught much more slow
ly L is planned to have the boys do .
Al he repairing in the school build
il-, a, soon as they are able. Every
-A that they use in their entertain
me- t, or games that can be made in
tl- workshop viii be of home manufaC-
tuc not only to save the expense of
1ou. Ieyman carpenter but to give the
hoy, the encouragement of seeing their
vo.< put to real use The teacher is
"e satisfied with the variety and
guilty Of the tools, saying that the
3s, .~tment is up to the standard OF the
oes, small schools.
I1e only girl enrolled for the course
/, Mss Charts Gould, daughter of Rev
ana Mrs. L. w. Gould She has shown
2, much interest in the work as any
1t he boys The teacher has been
o. hing her in the elementaries OF
me nanical drawing in preference to
helping her at the bench. The boys too
vii be taught drawing later on.
I ne high school students who have
1ecun the course in the freshman and
,opnomore classes are Michael and
Tohn Smolinzsky, Seth Warner, Wayne
Io.~ombe, Lucius Bowles, Thomas
Fa7nham, Charles Conlon, Kenneth
I'll mpson and Gerald Scribner; in the
.euor and junior classes, Hugh Yates,
Ashley Wolcott, William Gallipo Mar
US Shambo, Russell Farnham, Regi
laid Farnham. Carl Beane. Daniel ,
7a-nham and George Barnes. There
IRE four classes of eleven boys each
ron the grades