GROUP III.—(Stupids.)
First Term.
Athletics and calisthenics, free-hand drawing from solids and familiar objects, elementary Sloyd, clay-modelling, mental arithmetic, and sentence building.
Second Term.
Sloyd, free-hand drawing, wood-carving, mental arithmetic, and calisthenics.
Third Term.
Sloyd, free-hand drawing, wood-turning, athletics and mental arithmetic.
The Trades' School.—Of all crimes, about 95 per cent. are committed against property. It therefore appeared imperative to the management of the Reformatory that every man passing through the institution should be taught a useful trade so that he would be able to provide an honest and sufficient livelihood for himself and for those who would be dependent upon him. For this purpose the trades' school was established and a regulation passed that all men entering the Reformatory without the knowledge of a trade should be required to learn one before they would be granted a parole.
Under conditions of free life it would be impossible to teach these men a trade. In their haunts of crime the criminals live a lazy ambitionless life and regard work as an evil to be avoided; the reformatory system, however, captures his interest on behalf of industry by making his liberty depend upon his having reached the status of an honest and enthusiastic tradesman.