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Title: Catalogue of the Hampton Normal & Agricultural Institute, at Hampton, Virginia, for the academical year ..
Year: 1869 (1860s)
Authors: Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute
Subjects: Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute
Publisher: Hampton : Institute Steam Press
Contributing Library: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

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in home san-itation, including talks by a physician (two hours aweek) on the care of a sick room and the small atten-tions necessary to the comfort of an invalid; the lawsof health and the influence of heredity; the prepara-tion and use of domestic remedies and disinfectants,and the sanitary care of a home; the prevention oftuberculosis; personal habits as affecting health andcharacter; lessons in first aid in injury and illness. MANUAL TRAINING(For boys in day school) All day-school boys devote two or more eighty-minute periods each week throughout the four yearsto some form of hand work. The chief purpose of this course is to make menmore resourceful in meeting certain emergencies thatare constantly arising in the home, on the farm, and inthe schoolroom. To this end the elements of the fol-lowing kinds of hand work are taught: wood work,harness repairing, cabinet work, chair caning, corn-shuck mat making, bookbinding, wood-turning,mechanical drawing, tinsmithing, tailoring, shoe 48
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ACADEMIC COURSE repairing, blacksmithing, bricklaying and plastering,house and sign painting, upholstering, wheelwrighting,and general repair work. From this list of subjectsindividual programs are arranged. The Junior year is devoted to elementary woodwork, harness repairing, cabinet work, chair caning,corn-shuck mat making, and bookbinding. The woodwork is preceded by a short course in mechanicaldrawing to enable the student to make an intelligentworking drawing of the things he will have to constructin wood. Instruction is given in the use and care ofwood-working tools, methods of forestry, lumbering,transportation of lumber from the forest to the mill, andits preparation for commercial purposes. Problems incarpentry and house construction are given to thosewho intend taking the carpentry course in the TradeSchool later, and who show a special aptitude for thiswork. The work in the Junior Middle year may be eitherwood work, wood-turning, harness repairing, or brick-laying, whicheve

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