Excerpt from Department of Public Education, State of Maryland: Forty-Eighth Annual Report Showing Condition of the Public Schools of Maryland, for the Year Ending July 31st, 1914 The teaching of manual or industrial arts is now a distinct requirement in our school instruction, and we must not think of evading the responsibility because it increases the cost of school maintenance. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.