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Title: Mind and hand: manual training the chief factor in education
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: Ham, Charles Henry, 1831-1902. (from old catalog)
Subjects: Manual training. (from old catalog)
Publisher: New York, Cincinnati (etc.) American book company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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He saw the pine as his father saw it, with theeyes of a lumberman. He learned just one thing, andlearned it so well that he is able to tell the story of thepine-tree from the moment of its fall from the stump inthe great forest to its arrival at the mill, and thence, cutinto boards, planks, and timber, to the raft or schoonerbound for Chicago. Then the different varieties of the pine-tree are enu-merated, and the uses to which their woods are severallyadapted mentioned. The countries which chiefly pro-duce the pine-tree are named, and the climatic conditionsmost favorable to its growth briefly referred to. Thisdiscussion leads to the subject of commerce in pine lum-ber— quantity consumed, demand and supply, etc; andthis in turn brings a boy to his feet with the statementthat at the present rate of consumption the supply ofpine in North America will be exhausted in fifty years.In answer to a question the boy says he read the state-ment in a newspaper. This leads to further inquiry as
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T.HE CARPENTER S LABORATORY. 35 to the sources of information sought by the members ofthe class, whereupon it appears that fifteen boys haveconsulted the title pine in some encyclopedia with aview to the present lesson, and that eighteen boys haveread the market report under the title lumber in adaily journal, in order to learn the value of white-pineboards. The value being stated by half a dozen boys,each member of the class computes the cost of the pieceof pine in the hands of the teacher. Ten minutes having been consumed in the inquiry intothe nature and value of the wood in which the lesson ofthe day is to be wrought, the instructor makes workingdrawings of the lesson on the black-board. It may con-sist of a plain joint, a mitre joint, a dove-tail joint, atenon and mortise, or a frame involving all these, andmore manipulations. In the few minutes devoted to thisexercise any question that occurs to the mind of the stu-dent may be asked, and no impatience is manifested orfelt if the

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