Bridgewater State University - Alpha Yearbook (Bridgewater, MA)

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be Mew Secretary of the State' 1IBoarb of Ebucation . UR 'SCHOOL has been 'highly honored by the appointnient of one of its alunini, George H. Martin of Lynn, to the oiiice of Secretary of the State Board of Education. 'His nanre is enolled with those of Horace Mann, Bai-nas Sears, George S. lioutwell, I Joseph XVhite, John NV. Dickinson, and ' Frank A. Hill, who have successively held this honorable office since the appointment of the Board in the year 1837. Mr. Martin was instructor in this School for eighteen years, then an agent of the State Board of Education for ten years, and for the last twelve years he has been one of the supervisors of the public schools of Boston. ,His character, ability, and varied experience give hini peculiar iitness for the important position he now holds. An interesting article from his pen upon the Tuskegee Normal School will be found upon another page of the Offering. ' i be St. louis Exhibit URING the 111onth of March the exhibit assigned to the school by the Connnissioner of Education was arranged and shipped. lt consisted of two parts, the Norinal department being represented by an outlined description of the four years' course, and the - ' Model School by illustrative material indicating the course in Nature Study. The four years? course was outlined on thirty-two large printed sheets ZI

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H Qlimpee of Guskegee. ,D IE' . A A VERYBODY has heard of Tuskegee. WVe have listened to Mr. WVashington, or have read his book 'fUp from Slaveryj' and have wondered if the pictures he has painted were too highly ff colored. The visitor to the school finds himself more than sat- -. 1 .. '1 ,ft . F f' gf... - U -.5 77 Q?E Q2S435i. f . pf 1 - v Nuilii .1 -:lvl ' 1.N 3:11 404 llq ,4- flz .:- fiufltrv- .,:4: 1' isiied. If he can spend an evening there, he will rind every class-room full of earnest, attentive young men and women who have been working all day in the shop or on the farm. These are persons who are too poor to pay the expenses of the regular course, but who are allowed credit for their labor so that after a time they may take up the regular work. Most of the academic Work done by these students is quite elementary. But there is some high grade Work done in the regular course. I Was much impressed by some delicate analytical work in chemistry carried on by a class of girls in training for nurses. An exercise in geometry, too, was quite equal to anything I have seen in northern high schools. The thinking Was clear and accurate, and the spirit of the class-room vvas unusually kindly and cheerful. The industrial work is splendidly done. Every phase of industrial life which the needs of the community call for is exhibited. The heads of the departments and the men and women in charge of the special shops are highly trained specialists, graduates of normal schools or colleges, or technical students. s For the men there are carpentry and house-building, cabinet work, wagon- building, harness-making, upholstery, tin-smithing, tailoring, blacksmithing, forge and lathe work and farm work. For the women there are cooking, dress- making, inillinery, laundry work, poultry-raising and dairy Work. The buildings are large and substantial, all built by the students, and scrupulously clean. All the domestic work, as well as the farm work, is done by the students. The farm contains 2,600 acres, and is rapidly being brought under higher cultivation. The boys learn road-making, tree-planting and care, the care of stock, as well as the ordinary processes of agriculture. All this is on :J