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risburg one the yearly basis, but
throughout the country the half-year
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Dr. Downes deals exhaustively with
this subject and quotes from the re
port of Allegheny's school superinten
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thority and advocate of the subject.
Dr. Downes also refers to the ad
visability of installing domestic science
in the grade schools and suggests that
such equipment as may be provided
for the high school at this time, be
transferred to grade buildings when
a new high school and consequently
new equipment is provided. The Rev.
Dr. Yates advocated domestic science
in the grades when the special com-
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SATURDAY EVENING, HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH JUNE 20. 1014
mittee on installing that course in the
high school reported.
Need Xight Schools
Dr. Downes, among other things,
discussed the need for night schools
for young white boys and girls, the
possibilities of night high school work,
a third school for the mentally defi
cent. and an eight year course for the
grades.
Dr. Downes' report in part is as fol
lows:
"On the assumption that the school
should give to every pupil the ability
to speak well, read with facility and
expression, write freely and legibly,
spell words within their ordinary vo
cabulary correctly, and perform with
reasonable dexterity and accuracy the
fundamental operations with num
bers, our efforts in supervision have
been directed during the year, parti
cularly to the accomplishment of
these ends. It is our belief, no mat
ter to what extent modern educational
ideas may have effected modifications
with the elementary curriculum, that,
aside from the matter of morals and
civiq righteousness, the three R's are
still entitled to first consideration and
emphasis.
"Physical exercLse and fresh air I
have received special attention
throughout the year. And, not by any
means least, a sincere effort has been
made, In connection with all forms of
school work, to direct pupils into right
thinking and right conduct and along
lines which make for the upbuilding
of substantial character.
it Manual Work •
"For a number of years there has
been considerable local agitation with
reference to the introduction, in con
nection with our school work, of cer
tain formal of practical manual work
for girls. Attention has frequently
been called to the fact that equal
provision for both girls and boys has
not been made in the high school
grades. It has been pointed out that
while our boys have had opportunity
for ten years past to pursue, through
high school election, various forms of
useful manual work, our girls have
had no alternative as to high schools
and no opportunity whatever for man
ual work, excepting in the subject of
drawing.
"It must be confessed that we have
been unduly conservative, if, indeed,
not neglectful in this particular. Of
course It is a well known fact that
lack of room has been the principal
excuse for delay and this excuse has
been reasonably legitimate. Until the
past year, under the single session
plan of operation, it would have been
impossible to provide these facilities,
but with the inauguration of the
double session plan, opportunity has
com« whereby this manifest need of
our high school girls can be supplied.
"The decision of the board, there
fore, to equip quarters for the teach
ing of the subjects mentioned, in con
nection with the new course in house
hold economy in the Central high
school, would seem to be wise. The
plan is not entirely in accord with the
reemmendation of the superintendent
and high school principal that these
household subjects be taught in a real
home under real conditions, but it
doubtless will be considerably more
economical than the plan originally
recommended, even though in certain
particulars it might not be quite as
satisfactory. The principal object, at
least, will be realized, namely, the
making provision for the pursuit,
along well established lines, of certain
forms of practical manual work for
our girls. Upon the completion of a
new high school the equipment may
be transferred to the new building,
or it may be used in connection with
the equally if not more important
work of organizing similar courses in
the grammar grades.
What Might lie Done
"In this connection it is gratifying
to record tne appointment of special
committees of the board to investigate
and report on the matter of available
accommodations for manual training
centers in the elementary grades and
on the question of cost of their equip
ment. I have for a long time been
desirous of seeing some definite move
ment in this direction. It mght be
well for the board to seek informa
tion as to what is being done along
this line in practically all of the edu
cationally progressive cities of the
country. Courses in sewing and cook
ing for girls and wood-working and
mechanical drawing for boys are the
established manual subjects in the
grammar grades. In all new build
ings accommodations for this work
may readily be provid d. but the fact
that many older buildings do not
contain these accommodations, has led
to the common establishment of man-
Uial training centers in which the work
may be conducted.
"I have never been brought to the
point of conviction that a large part
of the elementary school day should
be devoted to manual training. I am
not particular whether very much if
any time be devoted to It in the first
four or five grades. After all, the
main function of the school, aside
from the broad purpose of training
up the generations Into good citizen
ship is to give pupils the umdamental
things connected with an academic
education; and neither manual train
ing nor any other subject, in the earl
ier years of school when these funda
mental thinfis are being taught, should
be allowed to creep into the extent of
interfering with their acquirement. In
the hisher grades, however, some time
might reasonably be devoted to a few
forms of practical manual work, with
out detriment to other studies. In
fact, they might be substituted for
certain other work not so practical or
essential which is now being pursued.
I believe, for example, that our boys
of the grammar grades miKht substi
tute mechanical drawing for freehand
drawing and profit by the »exchange.
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Time could be found, I am certain, in
these grades, for all of the few forms
of manual work which have been sug
gested.
More .Night Schools Needed
"An additional evening school for
colored adults was established during
the year, making a total of four even
ing schools maintained by public
funds. Three of these are for the
colored and one for foreigners. They
have all been doing good work, though
neither the average attendance nor
the percentage of attendances has
been all that might have been expect
ed. The total enrollment in these
schools is less than 150, which is un
usually small for a city of the popu
lation of Harrisburg. Quite frequent
ly inquiries have been made regard
ing our evening schools, by native
adults, and we have been compelled
to state that no evening schools are
maintained for them. In my judg
ment this condition ought not to exist
I question the wisdom of waiting for
a demand for evening school facili
ties, on the part of those particularly
interested, for the reason that those
who would be interested are doubtless
widely separated geographically and
unacquainted with one another, and
could not, therefore, by petition to the
board, or by other means, unite in a
common cause or request. I believe
it to be a part of our duty to create an
1 interest in evening educational work.
I This could be done by securing the
names of those Interested, through
public announcement, or by first ac
tually providing the necessary facili
ties and afterward giving wide publi
city to the fact that they have been
supplied.
"Several hundred boys and girls be
tween the ages of fourteen and sixteen
are compelled to leave school, each
year to go to work. In many cases they
possess the mere rudiments of an ele
mentary education, being barely able
to read and write the English lang- j
uage sufficiently well to legally entitle;
them to employment certificates. Fur
thermore, in many instances, it hap
pens that these children prefer to re-1
main In school. They are forced out,
through stress of family circumstan
ces, to aid in supplying the needs of
the home. If in any way we can give
these boys and girls, especially those
who waht it, opportunity and en
couragement through evening schools
to acquire a little education beyond
what they possess, it would seem to
be our duty to do so. In this connec
tion, evening high school work might
be mentioned, or, rather, special work
in high school subjects. Our Tech
nical high school is admirably equip
ped for work of this kind, in shop,
laboratory and classroom, and it
seems wasteful that such complete
facilities are used only a few hours
a day. I do not doubt that many
would seize such opportunities if they
were but thrown open to them. A
study of other cities ,in our own as
well as other States, indicates that we
are not doing the work we ought to
do along these lines.
"Open Window Schools"
"1 do not think it will be neces
sary for some years to come to in
crease the number of open air schools
where two teachers are employed and
where pupils ar practically fed, cloth
ed and transported, at a considerable
added expense over and above the ex
pense of the ordinary school. But I
commend to your consideration the
advisability of making provision here
| and there for a few open window
'rooms to take care particularly of such
as need open air treatment but who do
. not require the careful professional
j attention given in the more elaborate
type of open air school.
"In order that the opening of the new
Shimmell building may bring full re
lief and provide against congestion in
the near future in a part of this sec
tion of the city it will probably be
found necessary to bring together all
of the higher grammar grades into
the Forney building thereby utaklng
room in certain buildings affected by
the transfer, for the increasing enroll
ment in lower grades.
"A year or two ago the attention of
the board was called to the advisa
bility of adopting an eight year course:
of study in the elementary grades.
The principal arguments in favor of
this plan of grading are, the saving of
a considerable annual expense, the
saving of time to the pupil, and the
fact that the eight year course is
standard throughout the country.
"If the board should think favor
ably of the change suggested and will
authorize me to proceed, 1 shall be
pleased during the coming year to
reconstruct the course of study on an
eight year basis, with a view to hav
ing it become effective in the Fall of
1915.
"Closely connected with the ques
tion of length of course is that of the
length of class intervals. In St. Louis
pupils are regularly promoted four
times a year. In most cities the class
intervals is a half year. In still oth
ers, including Harrisburg, it is a full
year. This is a subject which also has
been discussed in my previous reports,
but which, doubtless for some good
reason, has not received the attention
which I feel sure it deserves. Semi
annual promotions are now standard
throughout the country. Our present
course of study was constructed with
a view to complying with the pro
visions of the school code on this
point, and it would not be difficult to
take the matter into consideration in
connection with the proposed change
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as to length of course. Both plans
could readily be worked out together
and adopted at the same time.
"A third school for the mentally de
fective ought to be organized some
where in the lower section of the city.
The vacant room in the Harris bulding
would probably be a suitable location.
We would then have one school in the
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upper part of the city, one in the
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which the other two cannot supply-
Upon the completion of the. Shimmell
building I would recommend that the
special school now located in the Mel
rose building be transferred to a more
central location on Allison Hill."