power. A very noticeable fact presents itself in this work in that a totally blind boy can and does do as well as a partially sighted boy.

The following will give you an idea of what was done this year in this department.

Boxes, tool-racks, small bureaus, toy sleds, small wagons, toy wheelbarrows, checker boards for use of the blind, game-boards, dish-drainers, chairs, large and small, music cabinet, tables, large and small, china cabinet, picture frames, record box for phonograph records, small cradle, stylus handles, sleeve boards with standards, crosses made of shells, match boxes, bird houses, and other articles too numerous to mention.

I wish to emphasize the fact that the pupils do nearly, if not all, of this work themselves, even to dressing the tools, which is a very difficult process for sighted pupils. All I offer is a few suggestions and in some cases, a little help, desiring to train the pupil to think for himself.

I have had a class of girls a part of the year on Saturdays, and I wish to state that they formed this class voluntarily. This fact would justify the formation of regular classes for the girls another year. What is true of the boys in this work is true also of the girls.

I can only say in closing what I have said in years previous, that through industry only will a great number of the blind become independent and useful citizens.

Thanking you for past kindnesses, I am

Yours respectfully,

L. J. H. CRAFT.

REPORT OF MISTRESS OF HANDICRAFT.

MR. O. H. BURRITT, Superintendent New York State School for the Blind, Batavia, N. Y.:

DEAR SIR. It gives me pleasure to make a favorable report of the Girls' Industrial Department. The girls are industrious and interested in all of their work. The usual amount of sewing for the house has been done, also many fine garments made by the older girls for their own wear, they buying their own material. The younger girls are learning to knit and crochet, and we have spent one day of each week at basket work with reeds and raffia.

Fifty-seven girls have received instruction in the workroom during the year. I am glad to report that the girls are coming to this work younger than they formerly did, a condition I have always advised.

Respectfully submitted,

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H. E. PIERSON,

Mistress of Handicraft.

REPORT OF THE DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICAL EDUCATION

MR. O. H. BURRITT, Superintendent New York State School for the Blind, Batavia, N. Y.:

DEAR SIR. The following report of work done in the Physical Education Department is respectfully submitted:

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Upon looking up the matter, I find my list of classes for the past year has been practically the same as that of Mr. Belland the year preceding, with one exception, the senior girls' class has met at night instead of during the day. The kindergarten, primary and intermediate classes have occupied periods of thirty minutes, the junior and senior classes periods of fifty minutes each for class work. The total registration was 140; the average attendance each day, 120. Class work has continued regularly dur ing the whole year.

There are about twenty boys and girls, deficient mentally or physically, whose general health and intellectual and physical development would be greatly improved if they were separated from the others and put in classes where the physical instructor could give them his undivided attention for at least an hour each day. The only hope for these backward pupils lies in individual instruction. In the manual training department Mr. Craft and myself have succeeded in waking some of them up, both mentally and manually, and I see no reason why patient, persistent effort in this department cannot do as much, and more for them physically. I would, therefore, suggest that the physical instructor be relieved of some of his other duties for the purpose of devoting his whole time to gymnastic work and outdoor sports.

As has been the custom, we have devoted one day a week to play and games. The results have been fairly satisfactory. To devise or adjust a game so that all may participate is hard. One must have the necessary means with which to do it. A blind boy cannot run a relay race or a potato race without something to guide him. Therefore, to make use of those and other games most