School: a monthly record of educational thought and progress . receive special technical training insuch subjects as typewriting, shorthand, and book-keeping. Many pupils of this class are afterwardsable to earn their own living as clerks or as secre-taries. For those who wish to become commercialcorrespondents there is training in letter-writing inFrench, German, and Spanish. For those whowish to live useful lives at home after lea\ang school,there is a full housewifery course for their last twoyears at school. This training covers cookerj?,laundry-work, plain sewing, and of
School: a monthly record of educational thought and progress . receive special technical training insuch subjects as typewriting, shorthand, and book-keeping. Many pupils of this class are afterwardsable to earn their own living as clerks or as secre-taries. For those who wish to become commercialcorrespondents there is training in letter-writing inFrench, German, and Spanish. For those whowish to live useful lives at home after lea\ang school,there is a full housewifery course for their last twoyears at school. This training covers cookerj?,laundry-work, plain sewing, and of the girls who intend to go to college manageto find time to take a course in one or another ofthese housewifery subjects. The enumeration of subjects studied does notshow what is the essence of a school. These aremerely the currents into which the swelling tide ofintellectual interest sweeps. The essence of theschool is the deep-flowing pubhc spirit which makeseach girl feel she is part of a great whole, and thatupon her individually rest the honour and name. EDUCATIONAL THOUGHT AND PROGRESS 131 of her school. The games, flourishing for a townschool, help to develop this soKdarity. The schoolpremises are spacious enough to provide room fora gymnasium, fives-courts, and a few minutes walk is a school garden, whichaffords great delight to the girls who cultivate an easy tram ride is the school field, wherehockey and tennis are played. The school doeswell in the tennis tournament of the Lancashireschools, and a large proportion of the Universityhockey team, which is one of the best in the district,is always drawn from old High School girls. Inthe numerous school societies—the Field Club,Golden Rule Society, Literary Society—and in theschool magazine the public spirit of the school findstraining and expression. An active Old GirlsAssociation binds together at least the youngergeneration of those educated at Dover the most characterist
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