. The New England magazine. chool, it was set off from Dor-chester and annexed to Boston. The Farm School is limited to onehundred pupils. Boys are taken be-tween the ages of ten and fourteenyears, and retained until they graduatefrom the school department, the train-ing there being equivalent to that ofthe best grammar schools. At thesame time they are taught to work,the aim being to fit them so that whenthey are old enough to go out into theworld they will be fitted to meet andgrapple with the problems which lifewill present. As soon as is practicableafter graduation, places are found forthe
. The New England magazine. chool, it was set off from Dor-chester and annexed to Boston. The Farm School is limited to onehundred pupils. Boys are taken be-tween the ages of ten and fourteenyears, and retained until they graduatefrom the school department, the train-ing there being equivalent to that ofthe best grammar schools. At thesame time they are taught to work,the aim being to fit them so that whenthey are old enough to go out into theworld they will be fitted to meet andgrapple with the problems which lifewill present. As soon as is practicableafter graduation, places are found forthem in offices, stores, shops or onfarms, according as their training ornatural ability seem to make most de-sirable. Boys who have committedcrime or are what may be termed badboys are not received. The FarmSchool is in no sense a reform school, •u^Ie!!!hh3I!«IH 1 lH 1 J * • ^WH ?jB • ml ^H Qp^5$99flCMB ^--^ t 8fli ? T /? .5- m ^vRPk; ? BOYS GARDENS AND INDUSTRIAL BUILDINGS. ig8 A GOVERNMENT OF STREET IN COTTAGE ROW. but rather a home training school forthe boys who are under its are usually orphans, or the sonsof widows who from force of circum-stances are unable to provide a homefor some or all of their children. In addition to the regular course ofstudy there is a manual trainingcourse, which includes mechanicaldrawing, carpentry, wood turning andcarving, blacksmithing and the boys are in turn employedupon the farm for a considerable por-tion of the time they are at the school,obtaining from this and from the useof the boats, which they are constantlytaught to use and manage, the verybest physical exercise. In addition, ailin turn perform some part of thehousehold duties, including cooking,baking, making and mending clothes,and laundry work. The boys have thefreedom of a campus several acres inextent and a large and thoroughlyequipped gymnasium. There is no instinct stronger in theminds of children than that of imita-tion, and n
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