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FRANK BOSLER, Auditor.
Report of the Trustees of the Free Public Library.
Number of volumes in library, last report, 2235
Number of volumes added, 153
Number of volumes in library, February, 1908,
2388
Number of books loaned from library during past year, 4338
RESOURCES.
Appropriation by the town, $200.00
Income from Chloe Bliss Stebbins fund, 3.77
Income from Henry Cutler legacy, 85.85
Fines and cards, 13.75
Balance on hand Feb. 23, 1907, .27
$303.64
EXPENDITURES.
Eunice M. Bates, rent and care of library,
$136.08
Henry R. Johnson, books, 114.10
F. W. Green, transportation of books, 10.00
The Cutler Co., labor and material for bookcase,
6.10
Library Bureau, supplies,
4.75
F. A. Fuller, supplies,
2.33
E. M. Bates, supplies and labor on supplement, 2.26
Gaylord Bros., book mending material, 1.20
J. W. Baldwin, coal, 1.00
$277.82
Balance on hand Feb. 22, 1908,
25.82
$303.64
The legacy from the estate of Henry Cutler is deposited as follows :
$500 in Springfield Five Cent Savings Bank, book No. 5,548. $500 in Springfield Institution for Savings, book No. 1,458. H. W. CUTLER, Trustees VERNON H. DEMING, Free Public F. A. GURNEY, Library
Report of School Committee.
The School Committee respectfully submit their annual report. The revenues of the current year have been as follows :
Appropriations for school purposes, $4,500.00
School repairs, 400.00
High school tuition,
900.00
Music,
180.00
Drawing,
200.00
Dog fund, 1906,
229.59
Interest on town loan,
78.50
Income from state school fund,
1,079.99
State on account of Superintendent,
477.94
State, tuition of wards, 299.50
Car tickets, sold by Rose Smith,
10.00
Due from town of Monson, tuition,
330.00
Special appropriation for medical inspection,
25.00
Due from state on account of Superintendent,
304.00
Due from David Griswold, tuition,
24.00
$9,038.52
EXPENDITURES. TEACHERS' WAGES.
District 1.
Mrs. Mabel Smith,
$324.00
District 2.
$190.80
Regina Wallace, primary substitute,
3.50
Ruby Couch, primary substitute,
19.20
Edna Winans, primary,
22
Effie Morgan, intermediate,
$108.00
Jennie Hurwitz, intermediate,
228.00
Emma Smith, primary,
120.00
District 3.
Minta Perkins,
$120.00
Martina Messinger,
216.00
District 4.
Flora M. Greenough, grammar,
$166.68
Mary E. M. Mack, grammar,
333.36
Mary E. M. Mack, primary,
114.00
Marion Whitney, primary,
240.00
District 5.
G. Garfield Sawyer,
$108.00
Florence L. Richmond,
216.00
Ilda Mann,
$108.00
Edith Holland,
216.00
Grace Titcomb,
$360.00
District 8.
Rose C. Smith, grammar,
$540.00
Florence Carleton, intermediate,
120.00
Effie Morgan, intermediate,
240.00
Queenie Tomlin, primary,
120.00
Rita Hall, primary, Total,
240.00
$4,451.54
SCHOOL SUPPLIES.
Flora Greenough, map,
$ 1.00
F. W. Green, express and freight,
14.59
F. A. Fuller,
1.08
L. E. Knott,
.35
J. L. Hammett, general supplies,
146.13
Homer Foote Co., general supplies,
11.95
F. A. Gurney, general supplies,
10.15
Springfield News Co., general supplies,
43.58
Whitcomb & Faulkner,
1.50
T. M. Walker,
.80
L. W. Baldwin,
2.00
L. E. Hawley, 1.45
District 6.
District 7.
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FUEL.
J. A. Bennett,
$ 25.00
Wight Thayer Co.,
18.00
H. M. Green.
12.00
E. O. Beebe,
12.50
Ethelbert Bliss,
33.75
C. F. Tupper,
17.00
C. M. Calkins,
2.00
A. A. Phelps,
$ 62.00
Arthur Vinton,
3.75
H. H. Burbank,
41.25
J. W. Baldwin,
411.28
BOOKS.
G. and C. Merriam,
$19.01
Henry Holt & Company,
19.66
The Expression Company,
19.20
D. C. Heath Company,
16.52
Scott Forsman Company,
7.27
New Century Company,
2.81
Wesleyan Academy,
4.00
Walter H. Baker,
2.05
Thorpe, Martin & Company,
2.59
Houghton, Mifflin Company,
2.24
Ginn & Company,
75.24
American Book Company,
7.13
F. W. Christem,
2.00
Thompson, Brown Company,
5.00
Silver, Burdett & Company,
25.82
Franklin Jones,
1.24
M. E. Book Concern,
4.24
DRAWING SUPPLIES.
Harriet A. Ellis,
$ 1.38
Milton Bradley Company,
16.21
Wadsworth and Howland,
3.76
FLOOR DRESSING.
Masury and Young,
$ 26.00
Purchase, distribution and care of supplies,
H. G. Webber, 79.25
$1,215.73
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CARE OF SCHOOLS. District 1.
Mrs. Mabel Smith, janitor,
$ 8.20
F. A. Bodurtha, vaults, 2.00
E. C. Bodurtha, janitor,
9.40
District 2.
Cyville Boodeur, janitor,
$ 65.00
District 3.
Howard Calkins, janitor,
$ 4.80
Fred Bryant, janitor,
6.00
Chester Bryant, 3.00
Ethelbert Bliss, vaults,
1.00
L. E. Bosworth, cleaning rooms,
4.00
District 4.
L. E. Taft, janitor,
$197.50
District 5.
Roscoe Bennett, janitor,
$ 18.00
Hattie Day, cleaning rooms,
5.00
District 6.
Ilda Mann, janitor,
$ 6.00
C. A. Vinton,
15.00
Hazel Vinton, cleaning rooms,
1.50
District 7.
Albert Farr, janitor, $18.00
Mrs. J. H. Farr, cleaning rooms,
5.00
J. H. Farr, vaults, .75
District 8.
Mrs. E. C. Blanchard, janitor,
$270.00
W. A. Mowry, vaults and grounds, 4.60
$650.75
SCHOOL REPAIRS.
Geo. E. Calkins, labor, $ 2.25
Chester Bryant, labor,
2.85
Charles Tupper, labor and material,
2.25
Hazel Vinton, labor,
.75
C. F. Tupper, labor, 10.50
H. G. Webber, supplies, 3.00
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Whitcomb & Faulkner,
3.24
Collins Mfg. Co. supplies,
4.42
J. W. Baldwin, labor,
8.00
H. I. Edson, labor,
3.00
F. A. Fuller, material,
14.31
Jonathan Ames labor,
1.50
E. C. Clark, labor,
1.50
C. W. Vinton, labor,
2.15
E. S. Keyes, labor and material, Total,
162.37
JOINT SCHOOL DISTRICT.
Town East Longmeadow,
$ 21.41
Mary E. Howard,
$204.00
Town of Palmer,
$ 17.50
Wesleyan Academy,
824.50
Ludlow,
18.00
SUPERINTENDENT.
Mary L. Poland, salary,
$566.59
Mary L. Poland, car tickets, 10.00
SUPERVISOR OF DRAWING.
Harriet A. Ellis, salary, $187.38
TRANSPORTATION.
William Fitzgerald,
$ 2.00
J. W. Powers,
1.45
MEDICAL INSPECTION.
H. G. Webber, M. D., $13.50
$1,866.33
Total, $8,406.44
Value of books and supplies on hand March 1, 1908, $ 200.00
Value of books and supplies in school, estimated, 1,500.00
Unexpended balance state school fund, 300.00
We recommend the coming year an appropriation of $4,500 for school purposes, $400 for repairs, $900 for high school tuition, $200 for music, $200 for drawing, $100 for medical inspection.
Respectfully submitted,
H. G. WEBBER, E. O. BEEBE,
School
A. I. HOWE, Committee.
$222.09
SUPERVISOR OF MUSIC.
SCHOOL TUITION.
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Names of students attending Wesleyan Academy at the expense of the Town of Wilbraham.
Ruth M. Bell,
William V. Baldwin,
Vera Bell,
Edgar L. Bigelow,
Ethel S. Bodurtha,
Chester Bryant,
Ruth Calkins,
Edward A. Calkins,
Rachel Cutler,
Martin Eddy, Clarence Edson,
Eva Gebo,
Era Gebo,
Henry Goodnough,
Marjorie Green,
Fred Green, Raymond F. Gurney,
Dora LaBroad,
Charles B. Hitchcock,
Lois Newhall,
George L. Miller,
Elizabeth Pease,
Fales Newhall,
Lillie Rice,
E. R. Pease, William Thompson,
Laura Rice,
Grace Robinson,
Rea.M. Webber,
Ina Scott,
John P. Whalen,
Constance Stephens,
Alice Thompson,
Elsey Stephens,
Helen R. Wade.
CORA LAVIGNE, Grade IV.
Gladis Kallman,
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HIGH SCHOOL INSTRUCTION.
WILBRAHAM, APRIL 26, 1905.
It being the duty of the town, under the law of the state, to pay the tuition for high school instruction of such children as are duly qualified, the following regulations have been adopted :
1. High school instruction, at the expense of the town, will be given to such children as pass satisfactory examinations.
2. Examinations for high school instruction, at the expense of the town, shall be given to such children only as shall be recom- mended by the Superintendent of Schools.
3. No children shall be recommended by the Superintendent for examination unless they have satisfactorily completed, in course or by examination, the studies of the "Course of Study," for the public schools for Wilbraham.
4. Examinations shall be given in Arithmetic, English Grammar and Composition, Geography, United States History, and Physiology (after 1905).
5. All who shall pass these examinations shall receive from the Superintendent of Schools a certificate which shall entitle the person named therein to tuition, at the expense of the Town of Wilbraham, in Wesleyan Academy or such high school as may be duly approved by the School Committee.
H. G. WEBBER. A. I. HOWE,
School
F. O. BEEBE,
Committee.
WILBRAHAM, MAY 2, 1905.
The requirements of the public schools having been increased to meet the higher standard of admission to Wesleyan Academy and high schools, the prescribed amount of work to be done in grades eight and nine is here indicated.
Arithmetic. Metric System and Cube Root omitted.
Algebra. The four fundamental rules, factoring, fractions and simple equations.
English. Technical grammar and composition.
Physiology.
Geography. As covered in ordinary text-books.
American History. Montgomery's Leading Facts and side readings.
Spelling. Quincy Word List.
M. L. POLAND, Supt.
Report of the Superintendent of Schools.
To the School Committee of Wilbraham.
MADAM AND GENTLEMEN : -
INCE there has been no radical change in purpose or conditions a detailed account of this year's work would be but a repetition of former reports. Your attention is therefore called to those features which in some degree differentiate this from preceding years.
At the close of the spring term the three. ninth grades of the town, MARGUERITE GRISWOLD. Grade IX. -from Glendale, North Wilbra- ham and Wilbraham street,-after exercises in their respective rooms, united for graduation in Grace chapel, North Wilbraham.
Music under the direction of our supervisor, Miss Howard, was furnished by the schools.
The address of the evening was delivered by Mr. J. E. Warren, agent of the State Board of Education, and diplomas were awarded by H. G. Webber, M. D., to Vera P. Bell, Martha I. Egan, Grace G. Robinson, Ina M. Scott, Hazel A. Vinton, North Wilbraham ; Fred W. Green, Ethel H. Hay, Wilbraham street ; Ruth A. Calkins, Martin L. Eddy, Glendale.
Eight of these subsequently took examinations for entrance to Wesleyan Academy with gratifying results. One of the same num- ber having passed satisfactorily here took further tests in Palmer and was admitted to the high school there.
We are now paying tuition for twenty-nine in the Academy and one in Palmer high school.
As usual there were several changes in the teaching force at the close of the school year but we were most fortunate in retaining the services of some whose value to us can hardly be over estimated and in securing other promising candidates.
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NAMES OF TEACHERS.
EDUCATED.
School No. 1
66
66 2 Ad. Miss Jennie Hurwitz,
66
66 OP. Emma Bell Smith,
Nov., 1907
1
nary, New York
66
66
3
66
Martina Messinger,
May, 1907
66 4 Ad.
66 Mary E. M. Mack,
Jan , 1902
66
4 P.
66
Marion Whitney,
May, 1907
66
66
5
6
66
Edith P. Holland,
Aug , 1907
66
66
Grace Titcomb,
Aug.,
1906
Wakefield High
66 S Gr.
Rose C Smitlı,
May, 1903
66
8 Int.
Effie L. Morgan,
Jan.,
1901
66
66 SP.
66 Rita Hall,
May, 1907
Music,
Miss Mary E. Howard,
Drawing,
66 Miss Harriet Ellis,
Boston Con. of Music ( Springfield High Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, N. Y.
The school garden in No. 1, though carefully tended during the spring term, was seriously affected by the dry weather of the summer. A little money however was raised by sale of the produce and expended for small Perry pictures for use in school.
At North Wilbraham the work was all done on home land. Some of the children had creditable gardens while others, with but a bit of ground under the windows or by the doors, fenced their little plots and had a few flowers, or vines which gave evidence of care and deserved much praise.
In No. 5, the products were used in class for the lessons in drawing and were afterwards taken home ; Glendale made a school exhibit at harvest time.
The following is the report made by the. secretary :
NORTH WILBRAHAM, MASS., OCT. 14, 1907.
The Young Folks' Grain Club exhibit was held Tuesday, Octo- ber 8th, at the Glendale schoolhouse.
The members brought vegetables which they raised themselves. Those who had the best and largest were as follows : Stephen Ferancovitz, corn ; Cassius Lemon, potatoes ; Robert Robinson, cabbage ; Lillian Segeal, carrot. The other members brought good products but they were not as large as those mentioned above.
Meeting was held October 11th at 3.40. Talked about work for next year as this was to be our last meeting till spring. Adjourned at 4 o'clock.
LILLIAN SEGEAL, Secretary.
Mrs. Mabel V. Smith,
ELECTED. Oct., 1906 Aug., 1907
New Brunswick Normal § Springfield High / Westfield Normal
§ Froebel Normal Semi-
§ Westfield High Framingham Normal Wesleyan Academy
, Brookline High / Framingham Normal
66 Florence Richmond, Aug.,
1907
Springfield High Rockville, Conn., High
Plymouth, N. H , High
( N. H. State Normal Wesleyan Academy Newton High
¿ Framingham Normal Wesleyan Academy
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Of course the direct results of this labor are meagre. Their value consists in the influence which a sense of ownership and responsibility exerts upon the mind of the child.
When a little boy told me that his crop failed, because of a mistake he made, and that he now knew what not to do another season, I felt that he had learned more than he could have done had his seed yielded the desired increase. or had he been simply an observer of another's efforts.
Because of insufficient appropriation the medical inspection has been inadequate and has fallen below the intent of the law.
I am sure that there are defective children in our schools whose cases are not reached by the eye and ear tests applied by the teacher, whose lives will be enfeebled by disease which a practised eye would now discover and which, at this stage, are entirely curable.
Those who have listened to the singing of our pupils will bear cheerful witness to the excellence of the teaching of Miss Howard.
The work in drawing under Miss Ellis is not so well known but is none the less well done. Some of the best sheets have been sent to Henry T. Bailey, Editor of the School Arts Book, who receives, examines, and criticises drawings from grammar and primary schools all over the country.
The following have received recognition and their names have been published in the magazine mentioned above :
Honorable mention : James Avison, School No. 4; Howard Crosby, No. 1 ; Elsie Fårr, No. 7; Melina Gagnon, No. 5 ; Blanche Fitzgerald, No. 8; Harold Hitchcock, No. 8; Mabel Perry, No. 2 ; Faye Robinson, No. 2. Fourth prize, Chester Bell, No. 2.
' Day off." In the fall the Glendale school took an afternoon for a visit to the paper mill in North Wilbraham. Upon his return each pupil was required to record his observations.
I think the afternoon with its glimpse of home industry, which became the subject of a subsequent lesson in written English, was fully as profitable as one spent in a schoolroom.
By the kindness and under the efficient management of Mrs. Cutler, assisted by the Woman's Club. of which she is the president, the schools were enabled to profit by the Turner collection of two hundred pictures exhibited here Nevember 19-23.
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Each school, with its teacher, was given a half-day, transporta- tion was furnished by Mr. Stevens of Ludlow Mills, Wesleyan Academy, and citizens of the town, and Grange Hall was opened to us at slight cost for heat, care, and lighting.
It is estimated that the number of visits to the exhibition exceeded five hundred.
This does not mean that five hundred different people saw these fine reproductions of art, for some came more than once, but after expenses were paid the proceeds secured a picture for every building in town. The framing was done by subscription, the net proceeds exceeding sixty-five dollars.
School No. 1 has Bayard, Paton
School No. 2 Ad. has Feeding Her Birds,
Millet
School No. 2 P. has Primary School in Brittany, Geoffray
School No. 3 has Deer in the Forest, Rosa Bonheur
School No. 4
has Pilgrims Going to Church, Boughton
School No. 5
has Monarch of the Glen, Landseer
School No. 6
has At the Hearth,
Hoecker
School No. 7
(The same as No. 4, smaller size) .
School No. 8 has Lincoln from St. Gaudens Statue.
The money for the three rooms of No. 4 was put into one picture which was hung in the hall and the same is true in No. 8.
During part of the year a portion of the time assigned to draw- ing in the upper grades of North Wilbraham has been devoted to manual training, the boys working in wood, while the girls have been taught to sew.
A carpenter bench, long enough to accommodate eight boys, has been loaned by Mr. Keyes and we have bought a few saws, chisels, planes and hammers. At first the boys furnished their own lumber ; more recently it has been supplied by a resident interested in the work.
The girls have made school bags and have furnished their material. They are now working on sofa cushions, making their own designs.
Each member of the class has been required to make a working drawing of the articles to be manufactured.
That represented on page 36 was drawn by Chester Bell and shows the plan of the bookcase he is now working.
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Before Christmas, each boy made a coat or hat rack which now hangs in his own home.
Had we been less mindful of expense much more might have been accomplished but scarcity of tools has forced the boys to wait for one another. When one reaches the point where he can work independently he is allowed to put in as much of his leisure time as he sees fit, provided always that the principal is in the building.
A knowledge of arithmetic and other school branches is neces- sary and useful but it is no less important for boys to know the use of simple tools and for girls to be able to make and neatly mend articles of clothing. With the multiplicity of demands upon the time these things are not taught in the home and we have proof that such instruction is needed.
The school yard in No. 8, so long a blot on the fair face of nature, has been greatly improved by the hard walk leading to the building. A lady much interested here has generously arranged for the setting out of shrubs and we hope, by another year, these grounds will compare favorably with those so admirably cared for in No. 4.
Respectfully submitted,
MARY L. POLAND. Jan. 15, 1908.
HAROLD CONERY, Grade V.
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Schools.
Grades.
Enrollment.
Total
Membership.
Average
Membership.
Average
Attendance.
Per cent of
Attendance.
Tardy Marks.
1
1-7
24
22
18.2
16.4
90
101
2 Ad.
4-7
17
17
14
12.8
92.7
12
2 P.
1-3
33
33
25.4
23.7
88.4
62
3
1-5
15
15
12.95
12.2
92.6
20
4 Gr.
6,8,9
20
20
16.6
15
90.6
37
4 P.
1-5
31
29
24.5
23.3
94
63
5
1-4, 7
11
11
9
8.5
87.9
28
6
2-7
22
22
19.9
19.2
93
57
7
1-4, 6,9
16
15
14.4
13.2
91.8
21
8 Gr.
7,8,9
16
16
14
13
92.9
9
8 Int.
4, 5, 6
36
36
33.99
32
94.8
13
8 P.
1, 2, 3
33
33
30
27.9
92.6
11
Roll of Honor.
Names of those neither absent nor tardy, September 3, 1907 to February 1, 1908.
Nos. 1, 2.
No. 3,
No. 4 (Grammar),
No. 4 (Primary),
None. Ruth Merrick, Harold Bolles. Kathryn Beebe, Wallace Ripley. Harold Foster, Wilbur Gebo, Charles Stevens.
Nos. 5, 6, 7, 8,
None.
Report of the Supervisor of Drawing.
Miss Mary L. Poland, Superintendent of Schools, Wilbraham :
HE second year of drawing instruc- tion in the public schools has marked in many ways an advance over the development of this study last year. More adequate materials have been supplied for the work, so that better results are possible.
In the main, the same outline has been followed as last year, though with a broader understanding on the CHESTER BELI. Grade IX. part of both teachers and supervisor as to the needs of the children. We wish to make drawing more vital, more genuinely useful to our pupils, and more evidently a necessary part of the school work.
" Not unrelated, unaffied,
But to each other task allied."
The study in the fall of plants and flowers resulted in a most interesting set of nature-drawings, (pencil, brush and ink, and water-color), as was shown by the awarding of Fourth Prize and Honorable Mention by the School Arts Guild to children in several different schools of the town. This contest is conducted by the School Arts Book, a periodical edited by Mr. Henry T. Bailey, former State Supervisor of Drawing for Massachusetts. The book is published each month by the Davis Press in Worcester, and is devoted to the interests of drawing instruction in the public schools of the country. Many school children from cities and towns all over the United States are among the contestants, and awards from the Guild prove the child's work of real merit.
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Considering the fact that " the development of art appreciation is of as great importance as skillful execution," something of value to the children is gained by this study to know and appreciate the beauty of common plants and flowers, so that observation as well as greater ability in self-expression is developed.
Following the two months of nature-drawing, the weeks pre- ceeding Christmas were given in all the schools to constructive work, that is, the making and decorating of some object from card, paper, cloth or wood, which might be used as a Christmas gift.
To quote Mr. Sargent, Director of Drawing and the Manual Arts in the Boston public schools, "the aim of constructive work in schools may be considered as three-fold : -
WILLIAM O'CONNOR. Grade VII.
I. To make the results of all teaching more permanent and valuable, by introducing the element of motor activity which is a, necessary factor in intellectual development, and therefore must be recognized in any efficient scheme of public school education.
II. To develop industrial intelligence, i. e. habits of efficient, thoughtful, well-planned, economical doing." Concerning this he says, "Industrial intelligence is more than power to deal readily with figures and words. Ability to estimate, select and shape ma- terial to produce a desired result exactly as planned is gained only through actual estimating, selecting and shaping. Where construct-
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ive work has formed part of a child's training from the beginning, so that he realizes as a matter of course the distance that intervenes between the idea of a thing and that thing completed (a gap that must be bridged by intelligently sustained effort), and where he has repeated experiences in performing the successive processes with his own hands, there industrial intelligence will be developed. If a definite idea of the appearance and structure of the thing to be made accompanied by exact dimensions and patterns, and calculation of material is required before cutting of the final material is allowed, habits of efficient workmanship are developed, and aimless, planless
SIDE VIEW.
END VIEW
TOP VIEW. BYK ~ RACK
SCALE *** * '
CHESTER BELL. Grade IX.
work is discouraged. The objects chosen should be those whose use will be readily understood by the children, and in which they will be interested. Wood, cardboard, raffia, metal and leather are excellent material for grammar grades and require no more equip- ment than can usually be mustered in most towns.
III. To develop appreciation of beauty and excellence in con- structed objects and establish true standards of judgment, is another aim of constructive work. Appreciation is developed partly through much interested choosing between things better and worse. A high capacity for enjoyment of beauty in constructed objects is seldom
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developed alone by seeing beautiful things without ever having tried to produce them."
It would seem then that manual dexterity as developed by succes- sive problems in hand-work or manual-training, from the time the child first desires to " make something " is an important factor to be considered along with the drawing. A trial of manual-training, in the form of wood-work or carpentry, has been made in the North Wilbraham grammar school, though the work has not as yet progressed very far, owing to the necessarily small equipment obtain- able. With the aid of the mechanical drawing. kit, including board, T square, triangle and compass, the boys have made ( for reference when the object is being constructed in wood) a working-drawing of a table book-rack. After the construction is finished it is planned to have a suitable decoration made for the ends of the rack, and the whole stained in harmonious colors.
While the boys in the grammar room were engaged in wood- work, the girls were busy in the making of denim school-bags. They sewed the seams and hem by hand, made a design to decorate the front of the bag, and afterwards outlined this with colored silks. They are now at work on the designing of a sofa-cushion top to be made from burlap or denim, and will consider the making of the design, its application to the object, and suitable coloring of the same. It is now planned to try a similar problem in applied design in the grammar room at No. 4 school.
Manual-training of this sort gives reality to much necessarily abstract teaching. It trains hand and eye, quickens the perception, and the faculty of observation, and creates habits of accuracy, self- reliance, and truth. For boys especially it may prepare for a vocation, provide an occupation for leisure hours, and perhaps reach many not otherwise given to application to their school studies.
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The carnest spirit in which the work is taken up by teachers and pupils in every school, is one of the pleasantest features of the drawing instruction, and we ought with suitable equipment to accomplish things of lasting value.
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