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i interruption or diminution of work in other 

 .I the school becomes more uso- 

 ul ami popular frniii year to year. Tin- eour.-e, 

 khich ha- IH-.-II somewhat altered since 1887, still 

 four vears, and tin- lessons occupy from 

 d u half hours to seven hours a week, 

 nv drawing classes all through the emir-c; 

 '. wood shops, blacksmith shop, and ma- 

 rhinc sliop. The four-story building, which 

 torm- a wing of tin- high-school group, is spe- 

 illy constructed and titled for the purpose. 

 The Cleveland Manual Training School was in- 

 r|M. rated in iss.", opened in the following year, 

 upon the act of the Legislature, laying ;i 

 for such education, the owners gave to the 



unusual skill in any particular lino of work. 



i.ot younger than fourteen year* and of 

 high-school grade or acquirements an- admitted. 

 and without examination, on proper c. 1 1 ilicata*. 

 It i> u pay school. 



I'eniisylTuiiia. In 1887 the Legi-lature pro- 

 vided for the appointment of a commie-ion to 

 make inquiry and report on the subject of in- 

 dustrial education, looking toward tin 

 means of promoting it. and how far it i* nosei- 

 ble or desirable to incorporate it into the existing 

 sy-iein of public instruction. The chairman of 

 the commission, (ieorge W. Atherton, LL. I)., 

 President of the Pennsylvania State College. 

 visited institutions in Europe, and the other 

 memliers visited the schools of the State ami 

 elsewhere, and collected a vast amount of in- 

 formation, a small part of which was sub- 

 mitted to the Legislature with their report in 



y Hoard of Education the use of the building 



equipment for free classes to pupils of the 

 l>lic schools of the high-school grade, and at 

 t fourteen years of age. Other than the 



WOOD- WORKING SHOP. KAJTCAL TRAIMXO SCHOOL, WESTCIIESTKR, PA. 



iblic-school pupils pay a small fee. The work, 

 itcnding through three years, is in the use of 

 )ls. and mechanical and free-hand drawing, 

 fine hours a week are required, and one third of 

 ie time is given to drawing. The ground cov- 

 ered is much the same as in the course for boys 

 in Toledo. 



The Cincinnati Technical School, which is in 

 ct a manual training school, was incorporated 

 the Order of Cincinnati. It was opened in 

 In the following year the Commercial 

 ?lub as a body took an interest in the project, 

 id it has since borne nearly half the expenses 

 the school. The object of the school is to 

 irnish instruction and practice in the use of 

 >ls. in mechanical and free-hand drawing, in 

 it hematics, the English language, and the 

 atural and physical sciences. The facility of 

 mking plans and the ability to execute them 

 sought for, rather than manual dexterity or 



1889. The "Conclusions and Recommenda- 

 tions " are full and clear : " We are strongly 

 convinced. We believe that the time has come 

 when this step forward in the development of 

 our public-school system ought to be taken." 

 And it is recommended that provision be made 

 for the introduction of manual training into 

 each State normal school wood work for all stu- 

 dents, iron work for young men, and sewing for 

 young, women, as much as could be accomplished 

 in a course of twelve weeks if the time were 

 chiefly given to it ; the work to be accompanied 

 at every step with drawing in a progressive 

 course. That an appropriation be made to each 

 State normal school of $5,000 for plant, ami 

 $2,000 a year for maintenance. That after I^M) 

 no certificate or diploma be granted to any pupil 

 or graduate who shall not have completed at 

 least the equivalent of a six-weeks' course in 

 wood work ; and, to train teachers already en.- 



