The fine arts were
not very extensively taught at the time, and all we had was literature,
drawing, music, and dancing. These four studies were very well supplied
with good teachers, everything the school promised to do being well
done, but they were not given nearly so much time as the industrial
arts. Every pupil old enough to work was expected to give two hours
every Monday and Tuesday, and every Thursday and Friday to work under an
instructor in the shops on the farm, in the garden or the household. The
pupils could select their own work and could make a change of occupation
with consent of the instructor. No one was obliged to take the
Industrial course, but very few declined, even the aristocratic
Spaniards taking hold of work like good fellows as they were. Idling was
not in fashion.
I worked, for a while, four hours every day in the week. Cedar was found
competent to act as first assistant to the president--in the cow-stable.
Care of the cow being regarded as a disagreeable duty, Dr.
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