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are about $450. What will be the difference in the earnings 

 of the two men at the end of a work period of 40 yr. ? If it 

 takes 1440 days to complete a high-school and college course, 

 what is the average value of each day spent in taking 

 such a course ? (The college-trained man spends 8 yr. of 

 the work period in school at an annual expense of $250.) 

 5. Two classmates leave the country school, one to work 

 for 75$ a day with board ; the other borrows $250 and goes 

 away 3 yr. to a trade school and learns a trade which pays 

 him $1.75 a day with board. Counting each able to average 

 285 work days a year, at the end of 10 yr. from the time 

 they leave the district school which will have earned the 

 more money? 



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23. Manual training is an incentive for study. The pupil 

 is able to see his own thoughts given expression in wood- 

 work, and thus is made conscious of the process of being 

 educated. The result is more personal efficiency, economy, 

 and a higher regard for education. 



EXERCISE 



1. A seventh-grade boy made and sold in his first 36 one- 

 hour lessons in woodwork the following : a hatrack for $1, 

 a bookshelf for 500, a checkerboard for 25$, two picture 

 frames for 25$ each, a footstool for 50$, two coat hooks for 

 20$ each, a handkerchief box for 30$, a singletree for 10$, 

 and two hammer handles for 10$ each. How much did he 

 earn while reciting his 36 lessons ? 



2. A boy working at odd times during a school term of 

 6 months made a bookcase for which he received $15. How 

 much did he earn each month besides learning geography, 

 history, grammar, and arithmetic ? 



