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MANUAL TRAINING HIGH SCHOOL, LOUISVILLE, KY. PLAN OF SECOND FLOOR OF RECITATION BUILDING.

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The provision for housing the janitor and family is important, as to large amount of valuable hand tools in the building renders it necess} to have some person always there at night and during the vacate period.

Speaking of his building plans, after two years of use, Mr. Kli schmidt says he would make a single change in the shop, viz: E would omit the door leading from the forging shop to the engine hou~ making it a window instead. In the front building, however, he wou make several changes; in particular, he would use less space for hal on the first floor and enlarge the rooms for mathematics. The following items of cost will be highly appreciated :

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The value of the land is not included. The buildings are planned to accommodate 300 boys. The equipment of the machine shop alone cost $8,500.

COST PER PUPIL PER YEAR.

No practical question is more important than that of cost. Accordingly, below are given the figures from 5 schools. The reader must bear in mind that in this connection cost includes the running expenses of the entire school-literature, science, mathematics, drawing, and shop work; the maintenance of tools, supplies of materials, chemicals, appa ratus, fuel, repairs, salaries, wages, water, gas, etc.-everything but insurance and large additions to the plant or equipment. To find the cost per pupil per year the total expense has been divided by the total enrollment.

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Chicago Manual Training School (Dr. H. H. Belfield, director):

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Nothing better illustrates a course of training than high-minded men, efficient workers, good citizens, good leaders, and good followers, who as pupils enjoyed its advantages. The Honorable Commissioner of Education requests that this sketch be followed by as complete a record as can be given of the career of the graduates of the St. Louis Manual Training School. Those graduates already number some 550, and the oldest class, that of 1883, has been in active life eleven years. Such persons have had time to show the peculiar influence of their training, if such influence exists.

Accordingly, the classes are given below in full. In all cases the latest authentic information is given. A brief summary will be given at the end of the lists. Most of the young men can be reached by letter, if one wishes either to confirm the record or to get the mature opinions of graduates.

The writer well knows the danger of overestimating the value of these records. He knows that the causes of success and failure in the careers of young men are very complex, and the effects of heredity and environment are easily confused with the influence of schooling. At the same time, it is evident to all that we must and do judge schools and systems by the men they turn out.

The writer leaves conclusions to the reader; he adds only a caution, that if these records are to be compared with the records of other schools, some allowance should be made for those who attended the schools in either case but failed to graduate. For example, take 1,000 boys who entered the Philadelphia Manual Training Schools and another 1,000 boys who entered the literary high school of that city and see what has become of them. The fact that they did or did not complete the course of the school is an important element in the general result and should by no means be neglected. If five out of ten boys graduate in one case and only one out of ten in the other, a comparison of the graduates alone is evidently inadequate. With this caution, the lists are submitted.

PRESENT OCCUPATIONS OF THE GRADUATES OF THE ST. LOUIS MANUAL TRAINING SCHOOL, OCTOBER, 1894.

Class of 1883.

Henry H. Bauer, farmer, Dorchester, Ill.

John Boyle, jr., E. M. (W. U., 1888), mining engineer, 3618 Washington avenue. John L. Bryan, general manager American Cob Pipe Company, Washington, Mo. Alexander W. Buchanan, M. E. (Cornell, 1887), mechanical engineer, National Cash Register Company, Dayton, Ohio.

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