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Subsection 8. Agricultural Education. 



What Preparations Should be Required for Admission to State and Na- 

 tional Colleges of Agriculture? To What Extent Should the Courses 

 of Study in the Agricultural College be Theoretical and General , 

 and to What Extent Practical and Specific? To What Extent 

 Should the Curriculum of Any Such College be Determined by Local 

 Conditions ? 

 B. H. A. GROTH, Panama. 



Subsection 9. Industrial Education. 



What Should be the Place of Industrial Education in the School System 

 of the American Republics 9 Should it be Supported by Public 

 Taxation? Should it be Considered Under Separate Control ? 

 How and to What Extent May Industrial Schools Cooperate With 

 Employers of Labor 9 



H. METTEWIE, Bolivia. 



JOAQufN CABEZAS, Chile. 



ALFREDO SAMONATI, Technical Inspector of Primary Instruction, 

 Uruguay. 



JULIO CE;SAR BOLET, Venezuela. 



HAROLD E. BVERLEY, Special Student, Bradley Polytechnic Insti- 

 tute, R. A., Peoria, 111. 



Subsection 10. Commercial Education. 



How Can a Nation Prepare in the Most Effective Manner its Young 

 Men for a Business Career That is to be Pursued at Home or 

 in a Foreign Country ? 



(a) In Schools That are a Part of the Public School System. 



(6) In Schools of Private Endowment. 



(c) In Special Business Schools of Private Ownership. 



Outline a Course of Study That Will Best Prepare young Men to Engage 

 in Such a Business Career. Each Suggested Outline Should Con- 

 sider not Only the Character of the Educational System of the Coun- 

 try for Which the Course of Study is Intended, but the Desirability 

 and Practicability in a Uniform Course of Business Education 

 for all Pan American Countries. 



SANTIAGO H. FiTz SiM6N, Professor, International School, Buenos 

 Aires, Argentina. 



ANTONIO L. VALVERDE, Professor, School of Commerce, Habana, 

 Cuba. 



A. AUBERT, Nicaragua. 



M. DELLEY, Venezuela. 



FRANCISCO ARAYA BENNETT, Chile. 

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