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free-hand drawing, from solids and familiar objects ; elementary sloyd, clay modeling, mental arithmetic, and sentence building. Second term, 17 weeks, 35 hours per week : sloyd, free-hand drawing, wood carving, mental arithmetic, and calisthenics. Third term, 17 weeks, 35 hours per week: sloyd, free-hand drawing, wood turning, athletics, and mental arithmetic.
In November, 1896, the maximum enrollment was 117 pupils in manual training, with 10 instructors. In October, 1897, our equipment was further increased to accommodate addition- ally 225 pupils, making the total capacity for manual training instruction 450, with 40 inmate instructors, graduates of the manual training school, and three citizen instructors. Classes not being held on Saturdays, that day of each week is employed in giving instruction to inmate instructors in the theory and practice of manual training and its applications to reformatory needs.
It may be interesting to state our facilities for instruction : 100 iron-frame drawing tables, with equipments; 100 cabinet sloyd benches, with equipments ; 50 clay-modeling tables, with equipments; 25 tables for cardboard construction, with equip- ments ; 25 carving benches, with equipments ; 10 cabinet pat- tern-making benches, with equipments ; 25 chipping and filing benches, with equipments ; 25 molders' benches, with equip- ments ; 25 iron-frame wood-turning lathes, with equipments; I I 5-horse-power electric motor.
We have active preparations under way for instructing fifty additional pupils, which will give permanent appliances for a total enrollment of 500 pupils, or, roughly speaking, one-third of our reformatory population.
SPKCIMKX RECORD OF PUPILS GRADUATED.
GROUP I.
Conv. 6/97. Received October 26, 1893; height, 5 ft. 7^ in.; age, 17 years; weight, 126 Ibs. ; maximum, 20 years ; crime, robbery, first degree; proposed trade, tinsmith.
This pupil's record shows four successive failures in arithmetic previous to his assignment to the manual training, which began with subjects as follows : Mechaniral drawing, clay modeling, athletics, sloyd, mental arithmetic ; each subject one and one-half hours per day, five days per week. He failed the first month after manual training assignment. He was becoming familiar
