The following table shows growth by years, as represented by cities establishing Manual Training or Kindergartens in Public Schools. The number refers to cities adopting this feature of education in the years named.
| High Schools | Grammar Grades | Primary Grades | Kinder- gartens | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Year | Number of Cities | Year | Number of Cities | Year | Number of Cities | Year | Number of Cities |
| .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 1873 | 1 |
| .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 1880 | 1 |
| .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 1881 | 1 |
| .. | .. | 1882 | 1 | 1882 | 2 | 1882 | 1 |
| 1883 | 2 | 1883 | 1 | 1883 | 0 | 1883 | 2 |
| 1884 | 1 | 1884 | 3 | 1884 | 1 | 1884 | 3 |
| 1885 | 5 | 1885 | 3 | 1885 | 0 | 1885 | 2 |
| 1886 | 5 | 1886 | 5 | 1886 | 3 | 1886 | 0 |
| 1887 | 4 | 1887 | 1 | 1887 | 0 | 1887 | 5 |
| 1888 | 6 | 1888 | 8 | 1888 | 5 | 1888 | 4 |
| 1889 | 8 | 1889 | 4 | 1889 | 3 | 1889 | 7 |
| 1890 | 7 | 1890 | 8 | 1890 | 2 | 1890 | 7 |
| 1891 | 10 | 1891 | 6 | 1891 | 4 | 1891 | 9 |
| 1892 | 7 | 1892 | 6 | 1892 | 4 | 1892 | 10 |
| 1893 | 5 | 1893 | 11 | 1893 | 6 | 1893 | 15 |
| 1894 | 7 | 1894 | 7 | 1894 | 4 | 1894 | 20 |
| 1895 | 8 | 1895 | 8 | 1895 | 1 | 1895 | 7 |
| 1896 | 15 | 1896 | 13 | 1896 | 5 | 1896 | 12 |
| 1897 | 8 | 1897 | 13 | 1897 | 5 | 1897 | 7 |
| 1898 | 2 | 1898 | 4 | 1898 | 1 | 1898 | 4 |
| [135] | 5 | [135] | 18 | [135] | 8 | [135] | 28 |
[135] Not reported.
NOTE ON STATE LAWS IN RELATION TO MANUAL TRAINING.
Connecticut, in 1888, authorized and empowered school boards to introduce Manual Training in public schools.
Congress appropriated $8000 to Manual Training equipment in the District of Columbia in 1896.
In 1885 the State of Georgia passed a law authorizing and recommending school boards to introduce Manual Training in the public schools of the state. The law was simply a moral indorsement, and had little practical effect.
Indiana has a law authorizing the introduction of Manual Training into the public schools of all cities of 100,000 inhabitants or over.
Massachusetts passed an authorizing act in 1884, and on April 14, 1894, a law was adopted, section one of which is as follows:
“After the first day of September in the year eighteen hundred and ninety five, every city of twenty thousand or more inhabitants shall maintain as part of its high-school system the teaching of Manual Training. The course to be pursued in said instruction shall be subject to the approval of the state board of education.”