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manual training school is essentially 

 a modern-language school. In addi- 

 tion to the mother tongue only one 

 other language is studied, and that 

 is German. The humanities include, 

 besides these, history, literature, and 

 economics. The juniors have a les- 

 son in English every day. The work 

 is very elementary. It is a practical 

 drill in the use of language. It is as 

 difificult as it is elementary. And the 

 difficulty lies chiefly in the fact that 

 the home forces do not co-operate. If 

 the same number of people who now 

 have a blind faith in the talismanic 

 virtue of foreign languages as a means 

 'of culture could be made to appre- 

 ciate the importance of an accurate 

 use of our own beautiful mother 

 tongue, we might reasonably hope for 

 much better things. As it is, the 

 daily lesson in English is a little oasis 

 of how to use the tongue in a dreary 

 desert of how not to use it. I have 

 a friend, a shrewd man, who main- 

 tains that the national habit of lying 

 is a direct outgrowth of our inaccu- 

 rate use of English. The observation 

 is worth considering. 



The intermediates devote seven 

 hours to the humanities. Two hours 

 are given to German, an introduction 

 to the grammar with easy reading 

 and conversation, and five hours to 

 history and literature. The two lat- 

 ter studies go hand in hand. For ex- 

 ample, during the first term, while 

 ancient history is being studied, the 

 literature consists in a reading of Plu- 

 tarch's Lives, Stories from the Iliad, 

 and other books of ancient content. 

 The same parallelism is followed in 

 the succeeding terms during the study 

 of mediaeval and modern European 

 history. The plan was adopted ex- 

 perimentally, but its success has now 



