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Over at the east of Farnham Hall a group of laborers, among whom were fully twenty of the Farnham boys, were completing the foundations for Merriwell's new manual-training school building. A glimpse of the distant athletic ground showed a number of boys hard at work on the track and the baseball field. There was a look of serene happiness on Inza's face, while Elsie was positively rosy.
They have survived their juvenile ambitions to be milkmen, policemen, lamp-lighters, butchers, grocerymen, etc., respectively. Both are now in the manual-training school. Fanny, Josephine and Erasmus I have not mentioned them before, these are the children that are left to us of those that have come in the later years. And, my! how they are growing!
The kindergarten methods, the object-teaching routine, the blackboard and manual-training work, all recognize this feature. Schools in which these methods preponderate are schools where discipline is easy, and where the voice of the master claiming order and attention in threatening tones need never be heard.
So was high school free when you talked me into it, but if it ain't one thing it's been another. Cadet uniform, football suit " "The child's got talent for invention, Harry; his manual-training teacher told me his air-ship model was " "I got ninety in manual training when the other fellers only got seventy."
If there had been among us a Pericles who could have used this vast treasure in irrigating the lands of the West and building Manual-Training Schools where boys and girls would be taught to do useful work and make beautiful things, we could have made ancient Greece pale into forgetfulness beside the beauty we would manifest.
An Englishman came down from the mines of San Juancito embued with the desire to start a manual-training school in the capital. He called on the mulatto president and offered his services free for a year, if the government would invest $5000 in equipment. The president told him to come back manana. On that elusive day he was informed that the government had no such sum at its disposal,
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