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 pertains to the administration of the household is carefully studied
and practiced under the direction of a skillful instructor. The
well-equipped woodworking shop, with its orderly benches and its system
of drafting, of joining and of general construction, is giving the boy
the best use of his hands and placing within his reach the power to
build his own house and keep it in repair, or to go on to the mastery of
a useful trade and through it to the securing of a means of livelihood.
The printing office, too, gives yet another line of hand training and at
the same time of intellectual accuracy in other directions and studies.
For the special Normal training of teachers the practice of teaching in
the lower grades and classes under the supervision of a regular critic
teacher, is carried through the greater part of the senior year, after
the study of psychology has been mastered and the principles of school
management have been taught. And, finally, throughout the course the
Bible, with its hopes and promises, its warnings and denunciations of
evil conduct, is constantly taught and its sanctions utilized in the
formation and strengthening of character, and in most cases it is found
powerful in leading to the choice of the Christian life. Thus is the
work of Le Moyne Institute summarized, and such would it be found any
day in the year. Its teachers, in their life as a family, in the
teachers' home, comprise a "social settlement" that was in successful
operation years before the name came to have any significance among the
forces working for the social uplifting of the poor and the outcast of
society. [Illustration: CLASS OF 1900, LE MOYNE INSTITUTE.] One other
feature is worthy of mention with the work at Memphis, that is, the
cordial and mutually helpful relations existing between the church and
the school. They supplement, each, the work of the other, and pastor and
teach
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