MANfAl. TKAININIJ. 



l>y <lii1< r. -nt models. But ait the i 

 un< of minor iiujNirtuncf ami only un ex- 

 n oi' the rM-rciiu-H, tlic twoM-rii-tt urn cHucntially 

 Thi* " Am. i i, an ~i i u >," a- il ha* Keen called, 

 nt tliirt\ oin- model*, rim^'ira,' from u 

 . Mimll ciiliiriet. l.ike tlic ]>rr|>urut<iry 

 lor tlu< fourth cluKH, tin* i* even more rl"-,l\ 

 eonii'-eied with mechanical drawing, lifting drawing- 

 Ixianl, 1 square, ami trian^l.-s. Tin- pupil muxt 

 nuke hi* own working drawing!. 



Brookline has instruction in sewing for girls 

 of the first, second, and third grades of all the 

 grammar schools, arranged mi u systematic 



tlan. and in charge of a special teacher. All 

 ind.- nf plain sewing arc taught, and cutting 

 and fitting in the last year. Cooking is compul- 

 M>n in the Lincoln School to the girls of the 

 4 upper grades; the, classes have two hours 

 a week. In the Center School it is given to 

 those who dc.-ire it. in the 3 lower grades. It is 

 taught in a vacation school, kept at the expense 

 of the town, during July and August, for girls 

 over twelve years of age. A vacation school for 

 boys of the same age offers lessons in carpentry 

 of a more practical sort than that taught in the 

 regular school classes. 



Cambridge has sewing in the 3 lowest gram- 

 mar grades. There are manual training clashes 

 connected with the English High School. The 

 Cambridge Training School for boys was founded 

 by Frederick H. Rindge, and is under the im- 

 mediate control of a committee appointed by him 

 to carry into execution his plans. Pupils in 

 the Manual Training School will recite two hours 

 a day in the English High School, and will work 

 three hours a Jay in the shops one hour in 

 drawing, and two hours at the bench. It is in- 

 tended through this course to make it possible 

 for boys of more than ordinary capacity, appli- 

 cation, and fidelity, whose circumstances make 

 it important to give the minimum time to prep- 

 aration, to enter the Massachusetts Institute of 

 Technology at the end of three years. 



Canton has cooking classes provided by pri- 

 vate subscription and taught in regular school 

 hours. The attendance is voluntary, and 90 per 

 cent, of the girls have joined. 



Dedham has sewing as a part of the regular 

 grammar-school course, cooking for girls in 

 evening schools, and during the summer months 

 a successful vacation school for slojd work, with 

 four classes of boys. 



Easton, in the primary and grammar schools, 

 has plain sewing for all girls, and some instruc- 

 tion in cooking. One lesson a week in carpentry 

 is given to boys of the two upper grammar grades 

 and the lowest grades of the nigh school. Attend- 

 ance is voluntary. Expenses are paid from the 

 income of the Oakes Ames fund. 



Fall River provides a special elective course 

 in the high school, called the industrial course, 

 including two-hour lessons, and from six to ten 

 a week in wood and metal work, during the four 

 years. Rooms in the high-school building are 

 well fitted up with benches, lathes, forges, and 

 all other necessary means for carrying on the 

 work. The superintendent of the shop says 

 the objects of his lessons are purely educational. 

 There are 5."i pupils in the^e classes. The ex- 

 penses of the course are paid from the Dnrfee 

 fund of $50,000. Sewing is taught only in the 

 evening schools of the city. 



Hyde Park schools have sewing for all girl* 

 in grammar school*. 



hawiviKe provides sewing fur girls during 

 fourth and tilth years. 



Maiden has sewing in five grammar Bchooln. 



Milton and New Bedford for all girls in gram- 

 inar schools. Newton for all girl* from fourth 

 to seventh grades, inclusive. 



Quincy pupils are encouraged to make at their 

 homes articles of paper, pasteboard, wood, < -lc. ; 

 and in some schools, taught by graduates of 

 the Bridgewatcr Normal School, the pupils are 

 taught to make simple apparatus for illustrating 

 topics in chemistry. 



Somerville has sewing for girls in fourth to 

 ninth grades. 



Springfield has a systematic and thorough 

 course in manual training. Sewing to girls of 

 the first four grammar grades, by a special 

 teacher. Wood work is optional, and confined 

 largely to the ninth grade grammar and the 

 high school. About 240 are in the training 

 classes. Weekly lessons, covering one year, for 

 the ninth grammar, and daily lessons, covering 

 three years, for the high school. 



Stoneham schools have modeling in clay and 

 paper cutting. 



Waltham provides sewing for all girls from 

 third to ninth grades, and manual training ex- 

 ercises each day for boys in seventh, eighth, and 

 ninth grades. 



Watertown has sewing in the gram mar schools 

 twice a week by a special teacher. 



Wellesley has sewing for all girls in the gram- 

 mar schools. 



Winchester has sewing for girls of fourth 

 and fifth years, and optional classes in cooking 

 out of school hours. Carpentry is taught boys 

 in the eighth and ninth classes. 



The reform schools and schools for the de- 

 fective, all, or nearly all, have incorporated man- 

 ual training into their school exercises. The 

 Board of Education reports that the new ele- 

 ment of education is gradually working its way 

 into the schools, and is of opinion that no fur- 

 ther legislation is necessary. 



Minnesota. In 1887 a room in the St. Paul 

 High-school building was fitted up for optional 

 courses in wood working and to accommodate 

 40 pupils. More than twice that number ap- 

 plied to enter ; the accommodations were en- 

 larged, and at length opened to 96 pupils, in 8 

 classes, 5 of boys and 3 of girls boys, three 

 hours a week ; girls, an hour and a half. In the 

 following year a much larger appropriation was 

 made, and an addition to the building was put 

 up containing rooms and apparatus for metal 

 working. The city now has a fine manual-train- 

 ing school house. The privileges of the course 

 are extended to all students of both sexes of the 

 seventh grade, and on through the high school, 

 comprising 6 terms of prescribed work in which 

 drawing and for girls domestic economy are 

 included. It is entirely optional, but the pupil 

 having once entered a class must continue 

 in it. 



In Minneapolis the system has been in suc- 

 cessful operation since* 1887. The beginning 

 was made in the Central High School, with 

 benches and tools for 34 pupils at a time, or 120 

 in all, during each morning session of four 



