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DEVELOPMENT BY PERSONAL CONTACT.--We believe that the best influence for development of character is association with such as have reached a higher degree of moral development.  The readiness with which the Indian children imitate the conduct and ways of the white people, with whom they associate, and learn the lessons which elevate and ennoble, is proof of the sanity of our position.

To further this idea, and to bring about these excellent results Carlisle has the Outing System which is simply development by personal contact.  For this purpose we have yearly as high as 800 of the Indian youth under the influence of good, moral, economical, painstaking and consecrated white people.

Some one has said, "It is not their natures that need changing but their habit of thought."  This we know is best accomplished by the inspiration of personal contact with right thinking and living.  By reason of this system the Indian youth is placed in close contact and under personal supervision of the highest type of Eastern civilization.  Only after careful investigation as to the character and fitness of the person applying for a boy or girl, are they assigned to them.  A close and scrutinizing espionage is maintained over them during their absence from the school.  A gentleman who is the Male Outing Agent, visits the homes where the boys are during the outing season.  A lady who is Female Outing Agent, makes personal observation among the girls.  Monthly reports must be made to the school by the patrons, for which regular forms are supplied by the school.

This system will be described more in detail at its proper place in this Statement.

PRACTICAL--Our aim is to train the hand as well as the brain and the heart, consequently, we have our Department of Industries.  This covers the following trades and industries:--Tailoring, Printing, Wagon-making, Blacksmithing, Horse-shoeing, Coach-painting and Trimming, Painting, Tin-smithing, Shoe-making, Harness-making, Carpentering, Mill-working, Plumbing, Brick-laying, Stone-masonry, Plastering, Cement work, Farming, Dairying, Poultry-raising, Horticulture, Sewing, Laundrying, Baking,

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Cooking, and Photography.  In each of these departments the students after five years' training become proficient and self-confident, which coupled with the practical application of each of these trades and industries under the outing system, enables them to go into practical life equipped to take their place as wage-earners and bread-winners, or to maintain themselves in life's struggle.

A department of Indian Art and Design has been established and is under the supervision of a native Indian artist of national reputation, Miss Angel Decora, a Winnebago Indian.  Here the primitive Indian Designs, weaving, basket making and various other Indian handicraft are taught.

A number of the Indian maidens have taken courses in large Eastern hospitals and take front rank in the profession of nursing.  We aim to give a better opportunity for our girls to become trained nurses, and, anticipating the completion of our new Hospital, a class of nurses is already organized.

Gradually we have been enlarging our military training and aim to prepare our young men for appointment to the non-commissioned offices in the Army.

With electrical and mechanical engineering training demanding so many young men to-day, we ought to have facilities for larger military and engineering training, and hope to soon give this opportunity to the most promising and ambitious Indian youth.

What we already have, will be described in detail under each department of the Industrial training.

History

Carlisle is situated in the heart of the great Pennsylvania agricultural belt, nineteen miles from Harrisburg the State Capital, and one hundred and twenty miles from Philadelphia.

This was a frontier military post in the early history of the Colonies.  Here a treaty was made with the Indian tribes of Pennsylvania by Benjamin Franklin in 1753.

During the Revolutionary War a number of Hessian prisoners were brought here after the battle of Trenton and incarcerated under military surveillance.  For many years it was one of the chief Cavalry posts

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