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EXPENSE. 



The average cost to the students in such a school need not exceed 

 $100 per term of eight weeks, distributed substantially as follows: 



A matriculation fee of $25 00 



Eight weeks' board and room, 40 00 



Certificate of graduation, 5 00 



Transportation charges, 30 00 



$100 00 



The cost for maintaining such a school would vary as the faculty 

 is increased. No doubt the work could be begun with a force of 12 

 lecturers on the faculty staff, or two from each state, changing the 

 men from time to time as the needs of the school required. The col- 

 lege and station officers and the State directors would no doubt 

 contribute whatever deficiency might arise from the failure of the 

 matriculation fees to meet expenses. The matriculation fees of 250 

 students would amount to $6,250. The salaries of 12 professors for 

 two months at $100 per month would be $4,800; salary of a perma- 

 nent secretary would probably be $1,000, making a total of $5,800 for 

 these items. There would also be the expenses for postage, adver- 

 tising, traveling expenses of the board of control, and other inciden- 

 tal items. It would be expected that the halls, recitation rooms, and 

 equipment for illustrative purposes would be furnished by the in- 

 stitution at which the normal school is held. 



A graduate school of agriculture, similar in character to the nor- 

 mal school just stated, was held at Columbus, Ohio, for a period 

 of four weeks, and was supplied with a faculty of 35 teachers at a 

 cost slightly less than $4,000 for the term ($3,945.12). 



WHAT MAY BE ACCOMPLISHED. 



What such an institution could accomplish in an educational way 

 in fitting specialists for their duties by devoting their attention to a 

 single study, can be approximated by considering what is now accom- 

 plished in fitting young men in college in the line of mechanic arts 

 in the brief space allotted to such study. Sixteen weeks of six days 

 each in the two-years' course proposed for the institute lecturers, 

 with three hours each day given to lectures on a speciality, three 

 hours to practical work, and one hour to a lecture on some subject 

 of common interest, would give 288 hours to instruction in the stu- 

 dents' speciality. This amounts to 96 hours given to lectures on gen- 

 eral subjects; 283 hours to practical work; library reference work 

 and special reading, two hours each day, 192 hours; a total of 9 hours 

 per day for study, recitation and practice work, or 864 hours given to 



