ANNIVERSARY NUMBER 1919 



57 



LIBRARY. PHILIPPINE SCHOOL OF ARTS AND TRADES, MANILA. THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS OF THE PHILIPPINES OWN 

 1.2X) SCHOOL LIBRARIES ALL OF WHICH ARE AVAILABLE FOR THE USE OF THE PUBLIC 



In 1917 military training was made com- 

 pulsory for secondary students. Uniforms 

 were adopted, but were not required. In- 

 struction in military training is given prin- 

 cipally by Philippine Constabulary officers. 

 The students are interested; they are devel- 

 oping a better physique and a more manly 

 bearing; military training will make them 

 more valuable to their native land both in 

 time of peace and in time of war. 



For a number of years, physical training 

 has played a very important part in the 

 school curriculum. Group games and calis- 

 thenics have been prescribed for all of the 

 pupils, and specialized competitive athletics 

 have been engaged in by chosen athletes. 

 The effect of physical training has not been 

 confined simply to the improvement of health 

 to the strenghening of muscles, and to the 

 acquiring of skill and dexterity. The lessons 

 of fair play, the effect of team work, the devel- 

 opment of leadership, and the democracy 

 of the playground have all been inculcated 

 in the minds of the pupils through their par- 

 ticipation in athletics. 



Before 1916 specialized secondary courses 

 (normal, commercial, trade, and agricultural) 

 were given only in Insular schools. In 1917 



ippine National Guard, and hundreds of 

 students offered their services as privates. Red 

 Cross Day at Teachers' Camp on May 7, 1918. 

 netted a total of $2,500 for the Red Cross. 

 During 1918 nearly every public-school 

 teacher in the Philippine Islands joined the 

 Senior Red Cross and 215,154 pupils joined 

 the Junior Red Cross. More than $100,000 

 was given by teachers and by pupils for Red 

 Cross work; many thousands of garments 

 were made by schoolgirls for refugee children 

 in France and in Belgium; and thousands of 

 warm garments were sent to refugees in Sibe- 

 ria. During the Christmas Red Cross mem- 

 bership campaign, each division superin- 

 tendent acted as secretary of the provincial 

 campaign committee, and in each munici- 

 pality a municipal teacher served in the ca- 

 pacity of secretary of the local committee. 

 Thus the full force of the public-school 

 system was thrown solidly behind the Christ- 

 mas drive and the result was more than satis- 

 factorv. 



PARADE OF ATHLETES AT THE ANNUAL MANILA CARNIVAL ATHLETIC MEET WHERE WINNING TEAMS OF ORGANIZED 

 ATHLETIC ASSOCIATIONS OF THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS OF THE PHILIPPINES COMPETE FOR INSULAR CHAMPIONSHIPS 



A SECTION" OF THE FINAL CORN EXHIBIT OK AN EXItN- 

 SIVE CAMPAIGN CARRIED ON BY THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS 

 OF THE PHILIPPINES TO INCREASE THE PRODUCTION 

 F CORN AND EXTEND ITS USE AS A HUMAN FOOD 



SCHOOL BOYS CHANGING THE TEETH IN A CIRCULAR SAW AT A SAWMILL OWNED AND OPERATED BY THE STUDENTS 



\riliNDIVU THE CENTRAL LUZON AGRICULTURAL SCHOOL, WHICH IS ONE OF THE TWENTY-SEVEN VOCATIONAL 



SCHOOLS OF THE PHILIPPINES WITH PRACTICAL AGRICULTURAL COURSES 



