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too largely, the reasoning-powers less, tlie eye and 

 the hand too little. 



3. That industrial training, to have its fullest 

 value, must be an integral part of general educa- 

 tion. While valuable in some measure alone, it is 

 alone little better than manual training as leading 

 to the learning of trades. 



4. That it is not the aim of the association to 

 teach trades. That boys and girls will, if edu- 

 cated according to the system which it advocates, 

 be better able to take up the study of any particu- 

 lar trade, it recognizes as one of the results of the 

 system. It is the development of all the faculties 

 which it holds to be the essential aim of the sys- 

 tem. 



5. That the fact is generally recognized among 

 those best informed on the subject of education 

 that the kindergarten system produces the best re- 

 sults with young children. The association claims 

 that the system which combines industrial train- 

 ing with the usual and necessary branches is 

 nothing more than a development of the kinder- 

 garten theory, — a system found wise for young 

 children modified and adapted to children of more 

 mature growth. 



6. That it holds the belief, that as children, 

 wherever found, possess the same faculties and 

 develop the same characteristic-;, this system 

 should be introduced into all classes and grades of 

 schools, the private as well as the public school, 

 and not alone in the primary public schools, but 

 1^' all those of more advanced grades. 



7. It holds that this system tends to the develop- 

 ment of certain moral qualities as well as to the 

 development of the intellectual faculties. 



8. That the various occupations which are by 

 this system given to the children, render study 

 less irksome than any system can in which the 

 exercise of the faculty of memory is alone in- 

 volved. 



9. That there exists in this country a wide- 

 spread disinclination for manual labor which the 

 present system seems powerless to overcome. 

 There is a wide range of occupations which our 

 boys and girls might with advantage enter were 

 it not that they are prevented from doing so by a 

 false view of the dignity of labor. That one of 

 the results of this system of education will be to 

 destroy a prejudice which in a measure arises 

 from a want of familiarity with hand-work. 



The accompanying illustrations will give some 

 idea of the way in which the r>resent work is be- 

 ing carried on. In the autumn a marked change 

 will take place, and children will only be found as 

 pupils in the model school. The pupils in the col- 

 lege will be persons preparing for the profession of 

 teaching. 



NOTES AND NEWS. 

 The annual convocation of the regents of 

 the University of the state of New York will be 

 held at the capitol building, Albany, on Tuesday 

 and Wednesday, July 5 and 6. The papers to be 

 read are, ' The education of the working-classes,' 

 by the Rev, Luke Grace of Niagara university ; 

 ' The teaching of mental science in schools,' by 

 Principal Samuel Thurber, Milton, Mass. ; ' The 

 study of law as a part of general education,' Prof. 

 F. M. Burdick of Hamilton college ; ' Moral train- 

 ing in schools,' Principal Eugene Bouton, New- 

 Paltz normal school ; 'The newspaper as an edu- 

 cator,' Regent W. A. Cobb, Lockport, N.Y. ; re- 

 port of committee on necrology, by Assistant 

 Secretary Albert B. Watkins, Ph.D. ; ' Private 

 librarian,' by the Rev. Ezekiel Munday, librarian 

 of city library, Syracuse, N.Y. ; ' Overcrowding 

 of school courses,' by Principal George A. Bacon 

 of Syracuse high school. Andrew D. White of 

 Cornell university will make an address on 

 Wednesday evening. Thursday will be devoted to 

 conference on the requirements for admission to 

 college between a committee from the associated 

 high- school principals of the state of New York 

 and representatives of the college faculties. The 

 committee from the high-school principals in- 

 cludes Prof. O. D. Robinson, Albany high school ; 

 D. O. Barto, Ithaca high school ; C. T. R. Smith, 

 Lansingburg academy ; Arthur M. Wright, Water- 

 ville union school ; Henry W. Callahan, Penn 

 Yan academy ; D. C. Farr, Glens Falls academy ; 

 C. H, Verrill, Delaware literary institute ; ex- 

 Principal Noah T. Clark of Canandaigua ; H. P. 

 Emerson, Buffalo high school. 



— The Wisconsin state superintendent of public 

 schools has done what seems a most excellent 

 thing. A similar custom may prevail elsewhere, 

 but, if S0, we have never noticed it. He has 

 issued in pamphlet form all the laws relating to 

 public schools passed at the last session of the 

 state legislature. The pamphlet contains a copy 

 of each law amended as it now reads, and a copy 

 of each additional statute passed at the session of 

 1887. The plan is an excellent one, and should 

 become general. 



— Thomas M. Balliet has been re-elected super- 

 intendent of schools of Reading, Penn., for a 

 term of three years. 



— The Newark (N.J.) board of education had 

 another acrimonious discussion over Barnes's 

 ' History of the United States.' Although the 

 book was bitterly assailed by some members of 

 the board, it was finally adopted as a text-book in 

 the city schools. 



