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sufficiently to weaken the will and curb the disposition to riot- 

 ous acts. 



" From January 15th to February 15th he was on modified 

 treatment. On February 18th he was unconditionally restored to 

 the second grade. February and March he did fairly well, losing 

 one mark each month, but in April his period of passably well-doing 

 was checked by his committing an assault, along with assumption of 

 authority, and on the 27th of April he was returned to the third 

 grade for the second time, remaining in the same two months and 

 three days, when he was again placed on modified treatment, and 

 did well for three months, when he fell again, this time for fighting, 

 losing six marks in October. In November he made a perfect 

 month, securing promotion to second grade. 



" On December 15, 1896, he was assigned to manual training. 

 Group II; object, development of self-control, with subjects as 

 follows: Athletics, drawing, sloyd, woodwork, chipping and filing, 

 molding. Each subject one hour and a half per day, five days per 

 week. The influence of the new environment sustained the effort 

 made in ISTovember to improve, and, by securing a perfect month in 

 December, all his past was blotted out and he was restored to the 

 lower first grade again, through ' amnesty,' on December 25, 1896. 



" Thus, on December 25, 1896, he was where he was institution- 

 ally classed at the time of his admittance two years and three months 

 ago — ^viz., lower first grade, from which all who are committed 

 begin the reformatory course of treatment, additionally thereto in 

 the manual-training department. His development now begins. 

 In January, 1897, he lost two marks as a result of school failures, 

 but in February he secured a perfect demeanor record; in March 

 he lost two marks; April and May were perfect months in all re- 

 spects, and he was graduated from manual training in May, re- 

 turned to institutional life, and assigned to the exercise squad in 

 the morning and stone masonry in the afternoon. Later his daily 

 assignment was changed, placing him in the molding class of the 

 technological department to complete trade. His development was 

 complete and permanent. He was returned to the manual train- 

 ing as assistant instructor in the molding class, and is now doing 

 well in all departments, having been promoted to the upper first 

 grade in August and ranking as sergeant in ^ I ' company." 



This record is only one example of many. 



Wlien manual-training schools organize their courses on the 

 principle of adapting the exercise to the ability to be developed, we 

 shall have abundance of similar proof. When these facts have 

 been incontestably established, there will be a means of satisfying 

 the complaints of those who are constantly attacking our schools 



