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2. Department of Manual Training 



This includes a course for teachers, male and female, a correlated 

 course of manual training with nature study, and optional courses 

 in wood working, wood carving, art metal, basketry, etc. 



3. Department of Nature Study 



This Department is organised and equipped for the training 

 of Canadian teachers in the knowledge of common forms and forces 

 of nature, as a means of training children in observation, expression, 

 and sympathy. The more advanced of the two courses in this 

 Department covers a full year and enables teachers to qualify as 

 specialists in the subjects, and as instructors in elementary agri- 

 culture and school gardening. The shorter course covers four 

 weeks in summer, and when taken for successive years qualifies for 

 a Rural Science Certificate. Generally speaking, the longer courses 

 carry with them a certificate which qualifies the holder to teach 

 the particular subject in the schools of Ontario. The fees for 

 Ontario students are, for all Home Economic courses, 15 dollars per 

 term. For optional courses not less than 5 dollars or more than 

 15 dollars. 



The Macdonald Hall is a house of residence for women students 

 of whom 110 can be accommodated at a charge of 3.50 dollars per week. 

 Certain students may defray the cost of the short course in domestic 

 science by serving four months as waitresses or dining-room girls 

 in the Macdonald Hall, at the same time receiving free board and 

 lodging and all student privileges. 



The Macdonald Institute and Hall are the first in Canada for the 

 training of teachers on this grand scale, but similar arrangements are 

 in process of delevopment in Quebec, Nova Scotia, and Manitoba. 

 They will be described in due course. The great advantage of com- 

 bining such a training school with an agricultural college is obvious. 

 The women students are brought into daily contact with agricultural 

 problems by the members of the agricultural staff, who are in many 

 cases their teachers, the trend of their education is in all respects 

 country-wards, the examples used are agricultural, their numerous 

 excursions in the summer bring them close to nature, and the 

 situation of the College in the midst of beautiful scenery brings no 

 town distractions. 



Agricultural Colleges 



The method by which it is proposed to bring together or correlate 

 the education of a country boy or girl from the rural school to the 

 consolidated school, and thence to the Macdonald Institute in the 

 case of the girl, and the Agricultural College in the case of the boy, 

 now brings us to the agricultural colleges in which a comparatively 

 limited number of the future farmers and farmers' wives of the 

 country can receive a training. The pupils of an agricultural college 

 are, or will be, in large measure, the best of those who have passed 



