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result of this work it has been placed within the reach of 

 thousands of boys and girls to secure special education they 

 desire without the great expense of attending some school 

 or college in a distant city. The son of a poor mechanic 

 struggling for a living in a city factory becomes ambitious 

 to learn a useful trade or science, and his only time is that 

 which most boys use for play-time. But his ambition leads 

 him to take up a correspondence course of study, and in the 

 long evenings at home he pores over these books until he 

 has mastered his subject. The result is that a great engi- 

 neer, or inventor, or contractor, or business man is devel- 

 oped. No matter how many great colleges or universities 

 might have been founded, this development of the poor 

 boy who must labor while he learns would never have been 

 possible but for the correspondence course. 



The theory of the correspondence course system is the 

 taking of the school into the home. It is not possible for 

 any great proportion of the ambitious boys and girls of the 

 country to take advantage of our schools of highe.r educa- 

 tion. To many millions of them it is denied because of 

 various circumstances. They have not the time, they have 

 have not the preliminary preparation, they cannot afford 

 it, they do not know how to get into the colleges. These 

 shut-out boys' and girls are just as important to the country 

 as those for whom the college doors open. The corres- 

 pondence course of study takes the college right to these 

 boys and girls. It opens the way for higher education to 

 millions who would otherwise have no such opportunity. 



So valuable is this principle that it is receiving state 

 recognition. Much of the development of the correspond- 

 ence course plan is due to private enterprise. All honor to 

 those who have been pioneers in this work. But it has 

 been taken up by such public institutions as for instance, 



