MANUAL THAI NINO. 



JORGE-SHOP, BALTIMORE SCHOOL. 



light hand work in wood, care' and use of tools ; second 

 year, wood carving and clay modeling; third year, 

 plain sewing, drawing and cutting of garments from 

 m. a.-mv. tilting and making garments; fourth \.-ar, 

 chemistry of combustion and of cooking, selection, 

 c:uv. mid use of cook ing apparatus and utensils, seleo- 

 tioti and preparation of articles for food, cooking, in- 

 cluding bread making and preparing food for the sick. 



Oskaloosa has had drawing, sewing, and cook- 

 ing for several years. 



Kentucky. Louisville is to have a manual 

 training high school as soon as the building can 

 be erected, when an extended course of study 

 will be arranged. At present 96 boys of the 

 freshman class of the regular high school re- 

 ceive instruction in the use of wood-working 

 tools forty-five minutes each day, and in draw- 

 ing one hour a week, all the time that can be 

 spared as the course of study is now arranged. 



Louisiana. In Tulane University. New Or- 

 leans, a manual training school is a distinct de- 

 purl inent. but the laboratory and workshop, in 

 charge of the Director of Manual Training, is 

 administered in connection with two other de- 

 part ments the high school and the college. 

 Shop work, drawing, and some experimental 

 work are carried on. There are a carpenter's 

 shop, forge shop, and machine room, well-fitted 

 ami supplied with machinery and tools. The 

 manual training course in the high school 

 comprises the second and third years, and is 

 purely educational, with drawing as an important 

 part throughout, five hours a week. In the col- 

 lege course, manual training is given in the 

 t're>lmian and sophomore years, five hours a 

 week in addition to a like number of hours in 

 drawing. In the junior and senior years engi- 

 neering and other technical work is taken up. 



Maryland. The Baltimore Manual Training 

 School haa been increasing in every way upon 

 the lines taken up at first and fully described 

 in this " Annual " for 1887. The curriculum has 

 not materially been altered. A post-graduate 

 course was opened in 188M. Sixteen instructors 

 are now employed. The school year 1800 began 

 with 506 pupils, of whom 9 were special stu- 



dents, and of these, 6 were from Johns Hopkins 

 University. During the year 249 were admitted, 

 310 withdrew. There were 17 graduates in 1890. 

 During that year a large new building was com- 

 pleted and the old one altered to correspond. 

 The school is now handsomely housed and admi- 

 rably equipped. It was the first manual training 

 school in the United States established as part, 

 of the public school, and it is still the largest 

 among similar schools. 



Massachusetts. The Legislature in 1889 re- 

 quested the Board of Education to investigate 

 and report upon the subject of manual training, 

 and. among other things, upon what additional 

 legislation, if any, was necessary in order to pro- 

 vide such instruction in the schools of the Com- 

 monwealth. An act of 1884 requires industrial 

 drawing to be taught in all the public schools, 

 and permits every town and requires every city 

 and town of more than 10.000 inhabitants to give 

 free instruction in industrial drawing to persons 

 over fifteen years of age. Another act of the 

 same year authorize* the purchase of hand tools 

 at the expense of the- town. The Board of Edu- 

 cation in 1890 made to the Legislature a report 

 admirable for its brevity and its fullness. Indus- 

 trial drawing is taught in 201 of the 851 cities 

 and towns in the State; models and objects are 

 used in connection with the drawing in 119 of 

 them, while in 43 special teachers are employed. 

 Nearly 80 per cent, of the school population 

 received instruction in industrial drawing in 

 1889. The State Normal Art School has over 

 200 pupils. The Board of Education employs 

 an agent whose whole lime i< given to aiding the 

 school authorities to introduce and teach indus- 

 trial drawing. 



In the Hostc.n public schools the experiments 

 described in the article of 1887 have been car- 

 ried on in about the <arne manner, sewing in 

 regular course for girls, industrial drawing for 

 all ; and outside the course, in small classes at a 

 time, instruction to girls of certain grades in 

 cooking and boys in carpentry. ASH result of 

 this long experience, manual training is to be 

 made a part of the school system. A com pro- 



