Manual High School - Mirror Yearbook (Peoria, IL)

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'Ghz Mirror THE BOOKKEEPING ROOlNI-COMMERCIAL DEPARTMENT The academic students find opportunity to satisfy their yearnings for general culture in the courses in English, history, science, languages, public speaking, music, and art which Manual offers. The school library consists of more than 5,000 volumes, between 200 and 300 books being added each year: While many magazines provide material for the study of current problems. Physical training is not neglected. Gymnasium Work is required of all fresh- men and sophomores: but the upper classmen, Who participate in the various sports of the school, also derive good so far as the physical side of education is concerned. An excellent commercial course, providing training for entrance into the business World, offers. bookkeeping, business arithmetic, commercial geography, salesmanship, advertising, commercial law, and economics. The home economics department oifers practical courses in home making and keeping. Clothing, foods, and home management are given due emphasis. The THE COOKING ROOM -'HOME ECONOMICS DEPARTMENT Twenty-one

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'She f7b'fi'r'rO1' THE ART ROOM--ACADEMICS DEPARTMENT The School ancl Its Work MANUAL TRAINING HIGH SCHOOL exists chiefly for the purpose of preparing the young people of the South Side of Peoria to become good citizens. The courses offered by the school are many and varied, but in each course, the object is to aid in developing of an all-around education for the city's future men and women. A visit to Manual reveals to an outsider a busy little World governed by a Mayor and a Student Council, a business-like atmosphere, a hum of activity, and over all, a prevailing sense of friendliness and companionshipfa working together. f Plato says that a good education consists in giving to the body and to the soul all the beauty and all the perfection of which they are capable , and to this end have courses in the school been selected. THE LIBRARY Twenty

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'Elie Mirror THE LATHE ROOM-MANUAL TRAINING DEPARTMENT first semester of this year an experiment was tried of offering a special course in home economics to boys who elected the study. A class of fourteen boys derived great good from this work. The shops offer excellent training for the hand and mind, and help many boys to select an occupation. Much practical work is done in this four-year course, which provides mechanical drawing and woodwork for freshmen, and machine shop, cabinet making, architectural drawing, and other advanced courses for the upper classmen. The sheet metal course, established in 1925, gives boys electing this work knowledge and practice which later save them a year or two of apprenticeship. ln addition to the regular school work, Manual maintains a home-study de- partment which provides to many who have been forced to drop out of school the privilege of finishing their education. The fact that about 100 people are at present availing themselves of this extension work gives evidence of its filling a need in the community. THE SHEET KIETAL SHOP MANUAL TR.XlNlNG DEPARTTNIENT Twenty-two