d appreciation of the student.

III. _Special_ course for students who show unusual ability in art and
can utilize it in trade.

1. Costume sketching for making records in dressmaking workrooms.

2. Stamping and perforating: (_a_) Machine practice--pedaling,
guiding needle, threading machine, and learning to adjust the
different parts. (_b_) Stamping on different materials with the
different mediums; composition of the different mediums, liquid and
dry. (_c_) Copying patterns for perforating; nature study for
motifs; conventionalizing those to apply them to materials.

(All designs are such as can be used in trade and are made according to
trade methods.)

ACADEMIC DEPARTMENT

Aim

I. Elementary: To supplement previous schooling. Girls who have left the
public school from low grades need special tutoring in the common
branches. Special instruction is also needed for newly arrived
foreigners.

II. Trade: To quicken and enrich the mind, that the girl may become a
more efficient, intelligent, and enthusiastic trade worker.

The work falls under the following subjects: Civics, Industries,
Arithmetic, English.

Civics

This course is given as a means of enabling the pupil to recognize her
place in the family, the school, the community, and in the world's work.
For lack of a better term it is called Civics. It is dealt with under
two heads: (1) Community Life in General, (2) Community Life in New York
City.

1. Under the first head the discussion of life in a given community is
followed by the simple facts that lie at the foundation of civic life.
These are approached through the interests or desires which the pupil
feels in common with all other people. Building still further on the
pupil's own experience, she is led to apply the ideas received to her
own community, which ever widening its scope is carried from the
neighborhood or the school to the city, the state, and on to the nation.

Civics also gives to the pupils a knowledge of the existing laws under
which they will work, by whom these laws are made, and the possible
means for improving them. In the discussion of such subjects as Tenement
House Laws, Child Labor Laws, and Trade-Unions, there is opportunity for
the introduction of home and business economics which have been found to
be valuable. Economics is further taught by the detailed discussion of
the apportionment of an income of $6 a week for fifty working weeks,