Issued January, 1907

Copies of this bulletin may be obtained by addressing the Secretary, CHARLES R. RICHARDS Teachers College, New York City

OFFICERS

PRESIDENT,

HENRY S. PRITCHETT.

VICE-PRESIDENT,

M. W. ALEXANDER.

TREASURER,

V. EVERIT MACY.

SECRETARY,

C. R. RICHARDS.

BOARD OF MANAGERS.
Serving Three Years.

MILTON P. HIGGINS, President, Norton Company, Worcester, Mass. ANTHONY ITTNER, President, Anthony Ittner Brick Company, St. Louis. W. H. PFAHLER, President, Model Heating Co., Philadelphia.

MRS. MARY MORTON KEHEW, President Women's Educational and Industrial Union, Boston.

C. R. RICHARDS, Teachers' College, New York.

JAMES P. HANEY, Director of Manual Training, Public Schools New York City.

ROBERT A. WOODS, Director South End House, Boston.

CHARLES F. WARNER, Principal Technical High School, Springfield, Mass.

Serving Two Years.

FRED W. SIVYER, President N. W. Malleable Iron Co., Milwaukee. FRANK A. VANDERLIP, Vice-President National City Bank, New York. CHARLES A. MOORE, President Manning, Maxwell & Moore, New York. FRED W TAYLOR, Consulting Engineer, Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia. LESLIE W. MILLER, Principal Pennsylvania Museum and School of Industrial Art, Philadelphia.

F. J. MCNULTY, Grand President, International Brotherhood of Electrical
Workers, Springfield, Ill.

MISS JANE ADDAMS, Head of Hull-House, Chicago.
LOUIS ROUILLION, Director Franklin Union, Boston.

WALTER M. WOOD, Manager of Institutional Work, Y. M. C. A., Chicago.

Serving One Year.

FREDERICK P. FISH, President American Telephone & Telegraph Co., Boston, Mass.

SAMUEL B. DONNELLY, Secretary General Arbitration Board of the New
York Building Trades, New York.

JAMES P. MUNROE, Treasurer Munroe Felt & Paper Co., Boston.
FRED J. MILLER, Editor "American Machinist," New York.

MRS. B. B. MUNFORD, President Richmond Educational Association, Richmond, Va.

E. P. BULLARD, JR., Vice-President Bullard Machine Tool Co., Bridgeport, Conn.

J. ERNEST G. YALDEN, Superintendent Baron de Hirsch Trade School, New York.

HENRY BRUERE, Secretary Bureau of City Betterment, Citizens' Union of

New York, New York.

NOTE

The central idea that animated those who organized the Society for the Promotion of Industrial Education was to unite the many forces making toward industrial education the country over. It was believed that by uniting those who are looking to this direction for the solution of one of our gravest problems, a much greater impression could be made upon public opinion, while through discussion and exchange of views, clearer ideas would be developed as to the practical possibilities of industrial education.

The field of work indicated by the term "industrial education" lies between the manual training of the public elementary school on the one hand and the engineering college on the other. Both of these may be considered as phases of industrial education, but it is that schooling which deals with training of direct vocational value to the industrial worker, to which the term is most appropriately applied.

The committee recognized that the problems presented by this field, involve not only economic and educational questions, but social considerations of large magnitude. They were convinced that lasting results could be secured only when public opinion approves the measures proposed and is aroused to the importance of moving forward.

For these reasons it was felt of the highest importance that the elements of the community concerned in the problem be represented in the Society, and that through the Society the views of each should find expression. Through such exposition they believe that public opinion may be shaped and brought to bear upon the situation.

This point must arise in any efforts to secure state and community support of industrial education, for while it is true that experiment and demonstration for some time to come, must depend upon private initiative and support, public action must eventually play a large part in this work.

The field of industrial education is a wide one. It is evident that the conditions and requirements of modern industry and social life are so complex that no single plan will meet all needs. On the contrary a great variety of provisions are necessary-provisions that will meet the financial resources and different capacities of the learners and will furnish the training called for by the trade. Even at the present time there are in active operation the apprenticeship system, the shop school, the trade school of various types, the technical school for the expert, designer and foreman, the evening continuation school, the evening supplementary school, the half-time school and the correspondence school.

The training of beginners for entrance to the trades is a very important phase of the whole problem, but it is only one phase. The idea that the National Society for the Promotion of Industrial Education should exert its influence toward the immediate establishment of trade schools would seem from many points of view impracticable and undesirable. There exists at present no substantial agreement as to the most practical and desirable form of such schools and because of this fact it would seem that the more immediate and legitimate function of the society should lie in the attempt to develop better understanding and agreement as to just what schools, if any, are best fitted for the different industries, what forms are practicable and what will be of largest benefit to both employer and employee.

The means that are suited to accomplish the double task of advancing the methods of industrial education on the one hand and of educating public sentiment on the other, are not as yet wholly revealed, but certain lines of effort are clearly in view. In the first place, general meetings of the society will be of value in giving opportunities for the presentation and discussion of special phases of the problems and for the interchange of views on general and special policies.

Publications will undoubtedly be one of the most important means both of gaining public attention and of disseminating valuable data among the members of the Society. The ultimate form of such publications is not as yet determined, but for the present they will be issued in the shape of bulletins, each devoted to some special aspect of industrial education.

Another important field for the Society's activity lies in studies made by experts, of the problems of industrial education