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Rh to produce healthy, beneficial thought and action. Keep up this training, with new interest and expectation on the part of the pupil, and habits of concentration, discrimination, and decision are formed which lead to increased mental and moral enlargement.



Manual processes, correctly taught, lead to tool skill, but if that be all, the object of its introduction into courses designed to meet particular defects of pupils segregated because of specific abnormalities is lost sight of, and the results are not what we start out to obtain. There must be a mental quickening, a moral expression, exhibited by clearer conception, and by well-regulated habits. By such results we test the efficiency of our work.

Physical training.—All pupils spend one and one-half hours each day in the gymnasium. The same basal group divisions are followed closely, and different forms of physical exercises, followed by baths, are prescribed to meet the particular group defect.