Book excerpt: Excerpt from Annual Report of the Department of Education for the Year Ending November 30, 1927, Vol. 1: Issued in Accordance With Section 2 of Chapter 69 of the General Laws In 1914 a summer session for manual training teachers was opened at Fitchburg, held for eight weeks. The next year a course of five weeks for women was Opened. Finally this practical arts department was in' session forty-eight weeks, thus eu abling the men to complete the regular three-year course in two school years, in addition to three summer terms. To meet the increasing demand for summer work, the session at North Adams was Opened in 1922. At Hyannis and North Adams special summer schools of physical education were conducted under the leadership of the State supervisors of physical education. 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.