June 10, 1887.] 



SCIENCE. 



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New Haven, Jamestown, Chicago, Cleveland, St. 

 Louis, Philadelphia, Boston, Worcester, and other 

 cities. The work of all grades of pupils, irrespec- 

 tive of age, was solicited with a view to showing 

 the results possible under systematic training. To 

 the cordial responses from these cities, as well as 

 to the efficient co-operation of schools and institu- 

 tions in and near New York, much of the suc- 

 cess of the exhibition was due. It comprised no 

 fewer than seventy separate exhibits from schools 

 and institutions, representing the work of thou- 

 sands of children, and one hundred and forty in- 

 dividual exhibits. This exhibition did a great 

 deal to increase the popular appreciation of the 

 importance of industrial training. The attend- 

 ance of visitors was very large, numbering over 

 seven thousand persons. The press treated the 

 exhibition with gratifying cordiality. 



Great as is the progress noted in the report of 

 1886, that of 1887 surpasses it. The work had now 

 reached a still more advanced stage. Nearly a 

 year ago the association had outgrown its quar- 

 ters, and the large building, No. 9 University 

 Place, formerly occupied by Union theological 

 seminary, was leased for a term of years. The 

 building was altered and refitted ; and in Decem- 

 ber last, two classes in drawing, one in carpentry, 

 one in sewing, one in cookery, together with the 

 kindergarten and domestic training department, 

 were in progress. In April this number had in- 

 creased to seven classes in drawing, six in carpen- 

 try, six in sewing, twelve in cookery, together 

 with the kindergarten and domestic training de- 

 partment. The association has had under instruc- 

 tion 4,383 pupils, 2,991 of whom have been mem- 

 bers of classes held outside of the building but 

 instructed by teachers in the employ of the asso- 

 ciation. Over 400 pupils were enrolled in vaca- 

 tion classes held in July and August last. A 

 course of public lectures was given, and attracted 

 much attention. The lecturers were President 

 GiLman of Johns Hopkins university. Superintend- 

 ents Button of New Haven, Balliet of Reading, 

 Calkins of New York, and Barringer of Newark, 

 Col. Francis W. Parker of Cook county Normal 

 school, Illinois, Dr. Henry H. Belfield of Chicago, 

 Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler of Columbia, and Mrs. 

 Mary Dana Hicks of Boston. A museum has been 

 opened — which will be largely augmented in the 

 autumn — which serves as an object-lesson in in- 

 dustrial education. It is always ojDen to visitors, 

 and many teachers and other interested persons 

 visit it daily. From it the eye takes in at a glance 

 the possibilities resulting from the combination of 

 manual and mental exercises, and sees how they 

 supplement and depend upon each other. The 

 museum comprises at present some twelve sepa- 



rate exhibits of drawing, together with specimens 

 of carpentry, joinery, lathe and forge work, rep- 

 resenting the Chicago public schools, Worcester 

 high school, Montclair public schools. New Haven 

 public schools, Hebrew technical institute. College 

 of the city of New York, Baltimore manual-train- 

 ing school, Chicago manual-training school, and 

 the Woman's institute of technical design. Still 

 other exhibits are in course of preparation. 



A library fund has been secured, and by fall a 

 large reference and circulating library of educa- 

 tional works will be at the disposal of teachers 

 and students. But the most important of the new 

 features is the establishment of a college for the 

 training of teachers. This will open in September, 

 and a circular of information has already been is- 

 sued. This college will aim eventually to become 

 a professional school for teachers, not a mere nor- 

 mal school in which education and preparation 

 for teaching go hand in hand, but a professional 

 school in the sense that a law-school or a medical 

 college is a professional school. As the law-school 

 has its moot courts and the medical school its dis- 

 secting-room, to combine practice with theory, so 

 this college will have its model school. 



In this model school the trainuig which the 

 association advocates will be given, — here the 

 new system, which combines the old and the new, 

 will be taught, — and the association hopes to have 

 in it a strong confirmation of the belief which it 

 strives to propagate. 



Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler of Columbia has 

 been elected president of the college, and will also 

 hold the professorship of the history and institutes 

 of education. The other positions on the faculty 

 are being rapidly filled, and that professional 

 school which all live teachers have long hoped for 

 will soon open its doors to properly qualified ap- 

 plicants. The college-building. No. 9 University 

 Place, contains a large lecture-hall, in which a 

 series of free lectures will be given. Monographs 

 on educational topics will also be issued from 

 time to time, and several have been already ar- 

 ranged for. 



The statement of principles which the Industrial 

 education association issued recently is a most ex- 

 cellent pedagogic creed. It should be carefully 

 perused by every teacher. The substance of it is 

 as follows : — 



The association holds, — 



1. That the complete development of all the 

 faculties can be reached only through a system of 

 education which combines the training found in 

 the usual course of study with the elements of 

 manual training. 



2. That the current system trains the memory 



