Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 62, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 April 1899 — Ingenuity. [ARTICLE]

Ingenuity.

In physics and natural history there are opportunities to direct and control the out-of-school activities of young people of which the enthusiastic teacher of science is not slow to avail himself. In describing the Ingenuity of boys, a writer in the Atlantic Monthly gives the following: One of the most astonishing facts of the time is the ingenuity of boys in constructing electrical apparatus, with but a few hints and out of the most meagre material. I know boys who have belt-lines of electric tramways circulating in their garrets; and a boy who, last year, was the despair of his teachers, now deserved recognition in the manual training exhibit as the clever inventor of a most Ingenious electrical boat. An invitation to boys to bring to school products of their own ingenuity or the natural history specimens that they have collected will result in an exhibition which, in variety and quality, will be a revelation to one who is not used to following them in these interests.