Mind and hand: manual training the chief factor in education . the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In his report for 1877 Doctor Runkle said, The plan announced in my last report, of buildinga series of shops [laboratories] in which to teach thestudents in the department of Mechanical Engineeringand others the use of tools, and the fundamental steps inthe art of construction, in accordance w^ith the Russiansystem, as exhibited at Philadelphia in 1876, has beencarried steadily forward, and I have now the pleasure ofannouncing its near completion. Reference is also made in the same report
Mind and hand: manual training the chief factor in education . the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In his report for 1877 Doctor Runkle said, The plan announced in my last report, of buildinga series of shops [laboratories] in which to teach thestudents in the department of Mechanical Engineeringand others the use of tools, and the fundamental steps inthe art of construction, in accordance w^ith the Russiansystem, as exhibited at Philadelphia in 1876, has beencarried steadily forward, and I have now the pleasure ofannouncing its near completion. Reference is also made in the same report to the actionof the trustees of the Institute in acknowledging the re-ception of certain models illustrating the system of Me-chanic Art education, presented by the government ofRussia, as follows: At a meeting of the Corporation of the Massachu-setts Institute of Technology, held I^overaber 20, 1877,a communication from his Excellency, Hon. George , American Minister at St. Petersburg, was read,announcing the gift to this Institute of eight cases of. DR. JOHN D. RUNKLE, THE FOUNDER OF MANUAL TRAINING IN THEUNITED STATES. THE MANUAL ELEMENT IN EDUCATION IN 1884. 337 models, illustrating the system of Mechanic Art educa-tion, as devised and so successfully applied at the Impe-rial Technical School of Moscow. The undersigned havebeen charged with the agreeable duty of transmitting tohis Imperial Highness the following resolutions: ^Itesolved, That the Corporation of the MassachusettsInstitute of Technology takes this opportunity to cor-dially congratulate his Imperial Highness, Prince PierredOldenbourg, that, at the Imperial Technical School ofMoscow, education in the Mechanic Arts has been forthe first time based upon philosophical and purely edu-cational grounds, fully justifying for it the title of the Russian system. •Resolved^ That this Corporation hereby tenders itsgrateful thanks to his Imperial Highness for his mostvaluable gift, with the assurance that these mo
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