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Other institutions for the education of the industrial 

 classes, monuments in these cases at least of the debt that 

 labor owes to capital, are the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn and 

 the Armour Institute in Chicago. I find this statement of 

 the aim of the latter : — 



Its aim is to give young men and -women, whether rich or poor, 

 a liberal education, not outright, but with liberal provision of fi'ee 

 scholarships to the deserving who need help and yet are resolutely 

 anxious to help themselves ; an education with the threefold pur- 

 pose of acquiring knowledge, skill and culture. In other words, 

 the training of the eye and the hand with the brain, an education 

 which will develop into a relish for the higher forms of skilled 

 labor, and will tend to infuse the class of workingmen with a more 

 general and broader intelligence, and at the same time, by the 

 practical application of art to industry, to develop that esthetic 

 sense which our American artisans too much lack. 



I trust I may be pardoned at this point if I make a 

 suggestion. Those who have visited the Columbian Ex- 

 position during the last season, and those who have not, 

 have marvelled at the beauty of the buildings that have been 

 erected for that Exposition, and I think it has been a source 

 of very great pride that among all the industries which 

 found a home at Jackson Park no industry found one more 

 appropriate, more beautiful, than the Agricultural Building. 

 It was felt to be a worthy thing that that upon which so 

 much depends should have had a worthy home there. And 

 I hope the day is not far distant when at our Agricultural 

 College the principles, at least, of architecture shall be 

 taught. When nature does so much for the agriculturist 

 why should not art do something for him also? If agri- 

 culture should have a beautiful home in that Exposition 

 which has been and is to be a teacher of the world, why 

 should not the farmers' homes, the farmers' houses and their 

 buildings teach lessons of l)eauty? Why should not the 

 farmer's boy be taught that it is no more expensive to build 

 a barn wdiicli shall be in keeping with its surroundings, so 

 far as its architectural structure is concerned, to say nothing 

 of the economy which may be involved therein, than one 

 which lacks such features? I think that those who have 



