CHAPTER XXVI.

THE MANUAL ELEMENT IN EDUCATION IN 1884.

The Kindergarten and the Manual-training School one in Principle. -- Russia solved the Problem of Tool Instruction by Laboratory Processes. -- The Initiatory Step by M. Victor Della-Vos, Director of the Imperial Technical School of Moscow in 1868. -- Statement of Director Della-Vos as to the Origin, Progress, and Results of the New System of Training. -- Its Introduction into all the Technical Schools of Russia. -- Dr. John D. Runkle, President of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, recommends the Russian System in 1876, and it is adopted. -- Statement of Dr. Runkle as to how he was led to the adoption of the Russian System. -- Dr. Woodward, of Washington University, St. Louis, Mo., establishes the second School in this Country. -- His Historical Note in the Prospectus of 1882-83. -- First Class graduated 1883. -- Manual Training in the Agricultural Colleges. -- In Boston, in New Haven, in Baltimore, in San Francisco, and other places. -- Manual Training at the Meeting of the National Educational Association, 1884. -- Kindergarten and Manual-training Exhibits. -- Prof. Felix Adler’s School in New York City -- the most Comprehensive School in the World. -- The Chicago Manual-training School the first Independent Institution of the Kind -- its Inception; its Incorporation; its Opening. Its Director, Dr. Belfield. -- His Inaugural Address. -- Manual Training in the Public Schools of Philadelphia. -- Manual Training in twenty-four States. -- Revolutionizing a Texas College. -- Local Option Law in Massachusetts. -- Department of Domestic Economy in the Iowa Agricultural College. -- Manual Training in Tennessee, in the University of Michigan, in the National Educational Association, in Ohio. -- The Toledo School for both Sexes. -- The Importance of the Education of Woman. -- The Slöjd Schools of Europe. 328