Identifier: reviewofreviewsw05newy (find matches)
Title: Review of reviews and world's work
Year: 1890 (1890s)
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Publisher: New York Review of Reviews Corp
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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his men,and in kicking when a share is thought to beunjust. When the last shock is put through witha tremendous rush, the victors gather and give acheer, after which, it must be said, they generallyturn in and help out the conquered ones. But probably not half the boys are thus occupied.Those who have shown a wish and aptitude in thatdirection are taken into the printing-office, wherea weekly paper is put forth. The Week is entirelythe work of the boys, editing, make-up, composing,piess-work, and all. No great literary elegance orsubtlety is aimed at, but the little periodical fur-nishes, in good, clean English, a complete recordof the affairs of the school. In a number at handappear brief articles on Mr. Nobles Second Lect-ure, Visitors Day, The Allan Debating Soci-ety, Busts of John McDonogh, the Work-listReport, etc., etc. The typography is a thing ofbeauty ; old printers say it is the best they ever saw.In addition to The Week, the printing-office puts 434 THE KEK/EIV OF REK/EIVS.
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THRESHING THB WHEAT CROP. fortli the school catalogues, occasional addresses,etc. Probably another score of boys will be found atwork in the shops, where, after drawing theirmodels to scale, the young carjjenters and mouldersmake them out of wood or iron. Several may beengaged on practical jobs—making a new table forthe dining-room, building a flight of steps for aterrace, or putting in an electric bell. PresidentDaniel C. Oilman would find here a refutation ofthe opinion he expresses in that charming littleessay, A Plea for the Education of the Hand,that manual-training institutions cannot hope toprofit by the results of the students work. Aston-ishingly clever hands have some of these youngstersfor the chisel and the lathe. The shops are sup-ported by the proceeds of $80,000 left for that pur-pose by the late Zenas Barnum A half-dozen light-fingered boys are copying onthe caligraph, which, with the shorthand studies,gives an invaluable training to those who are toenter business of

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