work under teachers of the manual training school, devoting two hours to the bench and one to drawing. The provisions for academic work are made by the city of Cambridge through the English high school, and those for the mechanical work are supplied by Mr. Rindge.

No pupil will be permitted to take the part of the course of study assigned to one school without also taking the part assigned to the other.

The course of study is as follows:

The course in algebra includes definitions and notation, addition, subtraction, multiplication and division, factoring, fractions, equations of the first degree with one or more than one unknown quantity, powers and roots, radicals and affected quadratic equations.

The text-book prescribed for the course in English history is Montgomery's "Leading Facts." The topical method of instruction is employed, and the boys' notebooks contain, besides topics, historical maps, notes of collateral reading, important dates and various other memory aids. Photographs of persons, places and scenes, guide-books, facsimiles of the Magna Charta, of famous death warrants and of the earliest newspapers printed, are utilized as helps in this study.

The course in civil government is based upon Miss Dawes's "How we are governed." The methods used are similar to those employed in the teaching of history.

The instruction in English follows the plan of Chittenden's "Elements of English Composition." Frequent themes are required. The literature studied is selected from the leading American authors, and includes both prose and poetry.

The course in drawing includes: use of T-squares, triangles, scale, pencil and compass, mechanical alphabet and its applications, geometrical constructions, projections, prisms, cylinders, etc., dimensioning, intersections and developments and tests.

The course in carpentry and joinery is as follows: saw and chisel exercises, halved joints, blind mortise and tenon joints, open mortise and tenon joints, halved dove-tailed joints, dove-tailed joints, brace joints, boring exercises, dowel joints, table leg and rail, glued triangle having angles of 30, 60 and 90 degrees, model of a newel post, tool chest, shoe blacking stand, etc.

The tools used are: rip, crosscut, back and keyhole saws; block, jack,

rabbet and jointer planes, try-square, chisels, gouges, bit stock, bits, bevel marking gauge, hammer, nail set, mallet, screwdriver, countersink, brad awl, spokeshave, clamps, wood files, drawing-knife, mitre box, oilstone, and grindstone.

The course in iron fitting is as follows: chipping, filing, scraping, polishing, fitting of sliding parts, drilling, hand turning, bolt cutting, tapping,

etc.

The tools used are: hardened steel try-square, outside spring calipers, spring dividers, steel scratch awl, prick punch, centre punch, file card, brass vise jaws, ball-peen hammer, cape chisel, flat chisel and various forms and sizes of files.

The instruction in geometry follows closely the plan of the first three books of Bradbury's "Academic Plane Geometry," i. e., through the geometry of the circle. Very little is required in books IV. and V., because the ground is covered by the practice in mechanical drawing. The aim of the course is to cultivate the power of close and accurate reasoning by a careful study of model demonstrations. As much original work is required as seems consistent with a satisfactory study of the formal demonstrations outlined in this course.

The course in physics aims to cover all the principal topics in a manner consistent with elementary treatment. An effort is made to avoid the fragmentary view of the subject which would be incident to a purely experimental course of one year, and at the same time to retain the advantages of laboratory methods. The method of instruction combines quantitative laboratory exercises, of which carefully prepared reports are required, with lecture-table demonstrations by the teacher. There are frequent text-book lessons and the necessary recitations and examinations.

The second year's work in English is based upon "Lockwood's Lessons in English." This course embraces an outline of the history of the English language and the elementary principles of rhetoric. Compositions form a part of nearly every lesson. The authors studied are Scott, Dickens and Hawthorne.

The work in drawing includes: inking with ruling pen and compass pen, shade lines, the standard bolt with formulas, machine drawing, dimensioning and specifying, freehand outline drawing, mechanical perspective, freehand perspective from models, freehand machine drawing, dimensioned constructions, intersection and development of plane surface solids requiring cutting planes, oblique projections and tests. All sheets are executed in ink except those for freehand and mechanical perspective.