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right-minded lad feels justifiable pride in his first earnings. 

 Besides, the granting or withholding of small increments 

 affords his tutors some tangible means of expressing 

 approbation or disapproval as circumstances may demand. 



A very useful purpose may be served by arranging that 

 the cadetship of any particular place may be regarded in 

 the light of scholarships awarded by the secondary schools 

 of the district. It is important to maintain the intimate 

 association between the school and the cadetship, and to 

 insist on the continuity of the training; a system of cadet 

 scholarships tends to ensure this. 



The effort has been made in some institutions, with a 

 certain degree of success, to afford opportunities for 

 more extended practical training to some of the cadets by 

 filling certain minor posts in the institution by means of 

 cadets who are allowed to hold these posts for limited 

 periods only, and who, at the expiration of the specified 

 time, are required to vacate them in order to make room 

 for others. Occasionally a vacancy may occur on the 

 permanent staff to which a cadet may be promoted. 



The training of youths in local institutions like the 

 botanic and agricultural experiment stations is of value 

 to parents in that the expense of the training is likely to 

 be quite moderate and within their means, as frequently 

 the cadet can live with his parents or relatives; it is also 

 of advantage to employers, for the work and progress of 

 the cadets may be kept under observation, and promising 

 youths may be chosen to fill vacancies that arise locally. 



In all of this there is little doubt as to the kind of 

 youth to be trained or the nature of the work for which 

 he is being trained. The cadet is taken to be a youth who 

 has had a good grammar school or secondary school 

 training, which includes some science subjects such as 

 biology, chemistry, and physics, which subjects he con- 

 tinues to study, if possible in his old classes, for a year 

 or so during his cadetship; he is being trained in order 

 that he may take up work on an estate or plantation in a 

 position of minor responsibility, with the intention of 

 rising to positions of increased responsibility, and 

 ultimately of complete management or control as time 

 and circumstances permit. 



It is to be observed that the systems of education so 



