MANUAL TRAINING. 811 



Students (brought forward) 38 



Technical positions : Electricity 12 



Architectural draughting 6 



Machine work 5 



Pattern-making 3 



Draughting 3 



Iron inspection 2 



Surveying 1 



Engineering 1 



Steel engraving 1 



Wharf-building 1 35 



Reporters 2 



Farmer 1 



Collector 1 



In ))usiness for themselves 4 



In business with father 5 



Mercantile positions 19 



Without occupation, or occupation unknown ^i 



Dead 1 



Total 112 



The first thing to strike one about this list is the large number 

 of boys who continue their education in higher institutions. One 

 third of this particular company of graduates are now at work in 

 the several departments of the University of Pennsylvania, Cor- 

 nell, and Drexel Institute, and in other medical, art, theological, 

 and trade schools. The percentage is, I believe, considerably 

 lower than in the four-year classical high schools of New Eng- 

 land ; but taking all the high schools throughout the country, and 

 the percentage is much above the average. The result is gratify- 

 ing, for it shows at least that the school has cultivated an appre- 

 ciation of wisdom if it has not always succeeded in imparting it. 

 Several factors have combined in turning the faces of so many 

 boys toward college. In the first place, a manual-training school 

 is a very practical school, and it does teach and illustrate the fact 

 that if one wants to do good work one must learn how. Many of 

 these boys have a distinct purpose in life, and they are at college 

 in order to prepare themselves for carrying it out. Further, it so 

 happens that a majority of the faculty are college-bred men, and 

 have a sympathetic appreciation of college advantages. We have 

 indeed made a special efi^ort in this direction, and have tried to 

 turn the most promising of our material collegeward, for we do 

 feel that between the man who goes to college and the man who 

 does not there is a difference of mental outlook which makes them 

 the inhabitants of different worlds a larger and a smaller uni- 

 verse. These influences within the school have been greatly 

 strengthened by the friendly attitude of our university an atti- 

 tude constantly manifesting itself in cordial generosity and sym- 

 pathy. 



