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 CHARACTER IH'ILDL\G AT ELM IRA. $87

with his environment. In the second month the result of manual processes, in which observation and discrimination must decide the truth or error of his own work by comparison with standard predetermined results, was showing.

This awakening was so noticeable that he was advanced. The three months following he passed 90 per cent., 90 percent., and 80 percent., at which time. Ma\ ;. 1897, he graduated from manual training and returned as

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susceptible to the usual reformatory treatment. In the same month the school director advanced him to difficult multiplication and division and mis- cellaneous problems, in which IK- is passed regularly, making in the Soptem- f ber examination 100 per cent. His actual assignment to manual train;- four months and seven days, and he acquired in that time the use of numbers notation to misi cll.meous tables anil their application.

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This pupil. | his assignment to the manual training, had earned

for himself tin- sobriquet of " cuoni,' the -,d inmates.

His offenses have been mostly threatenmu' langua^r, l\im:. contraband am

, talking, fowling, assaulting Officer, aad mslitutinnal nmes of that natute.