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"One Hundred Years of Progress in the Making of Men"
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​MASSACHUSETTS, She was a pioneer. She was a pioneer. She was a pioneer, a sopping wet fever-dream of traipsing west silently in just skin or, what’s more, shaping the frontier of young minds with practical skills, Such As: carpentry, laundry, painting, print-making. No, laundry’s not soft – toxic fumes. Borax.
MASSACHUSETTS, She was a pioneer, shaping the frontier of the plasticky mind with practical skills, Such As: laundry, laundry, laundry, laundry. Toxic fumes. 
MASSACHUSETTS, She was a pioneer. He was a former mayor. He became interested, offered funds. One hundred years of effort.
MASSACHUSETTS, Enterprise is original.
MASSACHUSETTS has made many contributions to original enterprise. Enter: Eli Whitney, son of a hunter or a critical critic. Enter: Lyman School for Boys. Enter: invention.
MASSACHUSETTS, Commonwealth of sound character and the undertaking of system management. Enter delinquent handling, the remedy of interest, the remote interest of training. State training represents an outgrowth of a potential industry improving the industriousness of boys. Enter: Public Welfare.
MASSACHUSETTS, She’s handling.
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Citizen
             What a bust. 
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Bird’s-Eye View of Man Making
pottery class       statuesque          bust 
 
Commonwealth represents an investment of more than one million dollars in its citizens.
Commonwealth represents an investment of more than one million dollars of its citizens.
Commonwealth represents
Commonwealth represents an investment in better citizens.
Commonwealth represents training in boys.
Commonwealth represents training busts.
Commonwealth represents training better delinquents.
 
Citizens are delinquents in training. One million dollars or more for the purpose. Follow purpose of hallowed trunks for hereness. Hear this:
 
Campus. Canpus. Campus. Canpus. Campus. Canpus. Campus. Canpus. Campus. Canpus.
Howl and rage Canpus, Howl and face strandedness, distortion, dis/closures of canpus for a plastic straw of discontented statuesque delinquency. Or Sequoia. Strong.

Bird’s-Eye View of making citizens out of delinquent boys, in vests.
Bird’s-Eye View of straw.
 
Star-Gazing Bird’s-Eye View of Citizenship, Straw, Delinquency, Howl: statuesque bird in a supervised dormitory: comfortable, airy, fireproof. Busted.


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Pride in Accomplishment
 
Pre-vocational classes performing necessary functions of the school give opportunity for work experience, and the joy that comes only with a task well done. What is so clean as a clean sheet.

What is so clean as a clean sheet?
 
Vocational clean sheet, a sheet cleaner, gives the opportunity for a clean slate. A sheet of slate is a sleek joy for a working boy. Nothing so sleek-clean as a clean sheet performing ‘necessary functions,’ sheet cleaning, for the school. Clean sheets for school; what could be sleeker?
 
Who slit the sheet? The sheet is slit. Whoever slit the sheet
slave to the hunter or critic
Toxic fumes of soft laundry, clean sheets. Perform necessarily to accomplish function. Accomplish function. Accomplish function. Perform necessarily. Accomplish pride. Task done. Borax become. Borax task.
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            living privileges in the democratic way

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About: This is a work in progress that considers the commemorative book "100 Years of Progress in the Making of Men" about the Lyman School for Boys in Westborough, Massachusetts. The "100 Years" project is thinking about geographical and spatial overlays; the "making" or training of boys as citizens, consumers, and workers; and the resonances of the reform project in other ideological programs. The Lyman School for Boys was the first reform school in the U.S. The source text can be found below and more information on the Lyman School for Boys can be found here and elsewhere online. A scan of the Lyman School log book details the "moral history" of the boys, including their families' religions, wealth status, and behavior. These jotted notes explain the terms of the boys' "indenture."

2020-2021
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