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chemistry, like all the naturalist's subjects, the observational and ex- 

 perimental, seem necessarily to carry with them the paraphernalia of 

 the laboratory. In every department of study there is some method 

 apposite to that line of work which permits an appeal to the sense of 

 inquisitiveness a fundamental element of human nature and a most 

 admirable and desirable one and gives thus a means of approaching 

 the mind by a direct and pleasant path. This is a principle now com- 

 ing to be accepted as axiomatic, in education, in all its branches, and 

 the once 'dry-as-dust' subjects are taking on new life and assuming 

 lovely and engaging forms. 



Thus we may steadily keep in mind, through the whole career of 

 the youth intended to ultimately take part in the constructive work of 

 the world, the fact that he must after a time take up technical studies 

 and that, the more the work of the later years can be facilitated in the 

 earlier, the better and the more profitable the earlier as well as the later 

 work. The courses of instruction may perfectly well he made to in- 

 clude work in literature and in the pure sciences which is both valu- 

 able in the early gymnastic branches of education and useful in the 

 later professional work. The earlier courses, in the case of the pupil, 

 for example, who is proposing to fit himself for entrance into engineer- 

 ing or architecture, may perfectly well, and wisely should, be made to 

 include just as much pure mathematics as can be had, just as much of 

 chemistry and physics as the schools can provide and the modern lan- 

 guages in liberal amount. 



Assuming that the aspirant for admission to the professional school, 

 in this department, may follow his own bent, and that he desires to be 

 educated and cultured as well as professionally expert, he will continue 

 his work into the higher education, and there will elect advanced mathe- 

 matics, will secure opportunities for experimental work in the physical 

 laboratory, for work in analysis and synthesis in the chemical labora- 

 tory and for the study of the technical, as well as of the literary, works 

 of modern writers in French and German and possibly in Italian and 

 Spanish. If he is preparing himself to take up ultimately law or medi- 

 cine or theology, he will similarly find in the college and university 

 curricula various branches of study which will be of service either 

 in shortening or in supplementing his work in the professional school. 

 All such opportunities being taken advantage of, it will be found that 

 the total time required to secure first an education and then a pro- 

 fessional training will be greatly abridged without sensible loss in final 

 results. 



There are often subjects obtainable in the educational curriculum, 

 or at least obtainable in connection therewith, which will be found 

 either to constitute a part of the required work of the technical course, 

 or to be likely to prove of special interest and advantage in connection 



