Into details regarding separate subjects it has not been thought wise to enter.

The options indicated in the course are put forward with the idea that they be considered as options for schools or for pupils, according to the willingness of committees to bear the additional expense which individual options involve.

This course has been planned on the basis of a session of six hours. It is the opinion of your committee that a session of this length is best for separated schools, and it is also of the opinion that manual training schools should be separate schools where numbers warrant the expense. The smaller cities, however, will doubtless be compelled for economic reasons to maintain manual training as a department or a course in existing high schools. In this case a session of five hours may probably be made to harmonize with existing arrangements of academic work.

Respectfully submitted,

A. L. Goodrich.
WM. C. BATES.

A. W. BACHELER.

C. W. PARMENTER.

C. L. JACKSON.

S. T. DUTTON.

A course of academic work for high manual training schools substantially as outlined in the foregoing report would undoubtedly receive the approval of the Board of Education.

FRANK A. HILL,

Secretary.

Two schools in the State which pre-eminently exemplify that sort of training which the act contemplates are the Mechanic

Arts High School, Boston, and the Cambridge Manual Training School for Boys, Cambridge.

THE MECHANIC ARTS HIGH SCHOOL, BOSTON.

The school is located at the corner of Belvidere and Dalton streets, in the Back Bay district. The building, two hundred and twenty-four feet long by ninety feet wide, three stories in height, of brick and brown stone, was erected in 1892-93 at a cost of about $165,000. The cost of land, furnishings and special equipment soon to be added will increase that amount to about $230,000.

On the basement floor are the boiler room, sanitary arrangements, engine room, dressing rooms, containing two hundred and fifty-eight ventilated lockers with combination locks, and the forge shop, separated from the main building but entered from the basement without passing out of doors.

The first floor (Plate II.) has two schoolrooms, accommodating seventy pupils each, a physical laboratory, machine shop, tool room, stock room and an office for the instructors.

On the second floor (Plate III.) are two schoolrooms, similar to those below, the woodworking room, the turning and pattern-making shop, tool room, and a room for the circular, band and jig saws.

On the third floor are the lecture room, rooms for mechan ical and freehand drawing, a storeroom for tools and drawings, and the lumber room.

A wing designed to contain the principal's office, the library, the reception room and the chemical and physical laboratories has not yet been erected, nor has the molding and casting shop on the ground floor next the forge shop.

The equipment of each department is equal to the best to be found in the country. The woodworking room contains thirtysix double benches for carpentry (see Plate IV.), furnished with complete sets of excellent hand tools. Each bench has racks, etc., for holding tools used in common, and a separate locked drawer for the planes, bits, chisels, etc., used by each boy who works at the bench during the day. The keys to the special drawers are kept upon a keyboard, which may covered and locked (see Plate V.). A special feature of this and other rooms for technical work is an amphitheatre,

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rant with the instructor's demonstration table at its centre, for class instruction (see Plate V.). The great advantage of this arrangement will at once be evident to all who are familiar with technical schools.

In the wood-turning and pattern-making shop (Plate VI.) are the thirty-six benches equipped with the Putnam Machine Company's 11-inch swing speed lathes upon one side, and upon the other with Wyman & Gordon quick-action vises, and complete sets of tools of the best quality. Here, as in the woodworking room, certain tools used in common are kept in an upper drawer, but the finer cutting tools are distributed in separate individual drawers, that each boy may have his own set. This room contains also a large pattern maker's lathe for the instructor's use, an amphitheatre and extensive cases for supplies and finished work.

The drawing rooms (Plates VII. and VIII.) have accommodations for six classes of thirty-six each. The drawing tables are unique. Each is fitted with a locker holding six half-imperial drawing boards (see Fig. 1), above which is a common drawer for inks, drawing instruments, curves, scales and various other tools used by all the boys. At the right are six individual locked drawers for pencils, erasers, notebooks, etc., the personal property of each boy.

Besides the usual keyboards, cases, blackboard stands, etc., this department has, in all probability, the best blueprinting apparatus now in use. The printing frame, which will take two imperial sheets or one "double elephant," is mounted on an adjustable rolling car of special design. Special sinks of soapstone afford facilities for evenly rinsing, washing and drying the prints without the slightest inconvenience.

Running nearly around the sides of the machine shop (Plate XI.) are benches of graduated heights equipped with twentyfour 4-inch vises and as many sets of tools for chipping and filing. The room is furnished with twenty-one Reed 12-inch engine lathes, and three 14-inch engine lathes made by the Fitchburg Machine Works, four Putnam hand lathes, and one Brown & Sharp universal hand lathe. In addition, three expensive special machines to acquaint the boys with the latest and best methods of iron finishing, — namely, a 20-inch Fitchburg Machine Works automatic planer, a Pratt & Whitney No. 1 pillar shaper, and a Brown & Sharp No. 1 universal milling machine,—an instructor's demonstration bench, with arm chairs for the classes, cases for tools and finished work, and about one thousand dollars' worth of special hand tools for fine work, complete the equipment.

In the forge shop (Plate IX.) are accommodations for three classes per day of twenty-four each. There are three Buffalo four-fire forges, and six of a two-fire pattern. The tool benches (see Fig. 2) hold the common tools, and contain three individual drawers for personal property and pieces of work in progress or finished. This room has also a special forge fitted with a hand blower, for the instructor's use, emery wheels run by power, a hand drill and a bolt-heading machine of the latest pattern. Fans of ample size produce blast for the forges