June 10, 1887.] 



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pected, had been largely preparatory. Industrial 

 education had been studied, committees on specific 

 topics organized and set to work. The conclusion 

 had been reached that a centre should be estab- 

 lished, where, by practical experiment, the value 

 and feasibility of manual training could be de- 

 monstrated. To this end the association had ap- 

 plied to the board of education of New York City 

 for the use of a school-building one afternoon in 



to permit the use of a school-building for any 

 educational work not wholly under its own con- 

 trol. During this year, also, Gen. John Eaton^ 

 U. S. commissioner of education, invited the as- 

 sociation to prepare an exhibit for the New Or- 

 leans exposition ; but it was deemed inexpedient 

 to attempt any such exhibition at that time. 



The second annual report, issued in May, 1886, 

 of the Industrial education association, is some- 



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the week, for the purpose of holding classes after 

 the regular school-hours in sewing, domestic 

 economy, designing, modelling, simple carpentry, 

 and the use of tools. The association offered to 

 assume the entire care and expense, and to open 

 the classes to the inspection of teachers, school 

 trustees, and members of the board of education. 

 This request was refused, and on the quite de- 

 fensible ground that the board was not authorized 



what more elaborate than its predecessors. The 

 work of the association had attracted suflScient 

 attention to incur misrepresentation, and it was 

 deemed necessary that an adequate explanation of 

 the term ' industrial ' be given. The report in- 

 sists that by this term is not meant the teaching 

 of any trade, nor the introduction of the teach- 

 ing of trades into public education. But, the 

 report continues, quoting Mr. Washington Glad- 



