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perfection of the mechanical work of the students, 

 I cannot do better than refer to the reports of 

 the juries at the above-named exhibitions. 



In America the same system has been intro- 

 duced, in its technical part, first, in the Chicago 

 Manual Training School, and later on hi the 

 Boston Technical School the best, I am told, 

 of the sort and finally at Tuskagee, in the ex- 

 cellent school for coloured young men. In this 

 country, or rather in Scotland, I found the 

 system applied with full success, for some years, 

 under the direction of Dr. Ogilvie at Gordon's 

 College in Aberdeen. It is the Moscow or Chi- 

 cago system on a limited scale. While receiving 

 substantial scientific education, the pupils are 

 also trained in the workshops but not for one 

 special trade, as it unhappily too often is the 

 case. They pass through the carpenter's work- 

 shop, the casting in metals, and the engineering 

 workshop ; and in each of these they learn the 

 foundations of each of the three trades sufficiently 

 well for supplying the school itself with a number 

 of useful things. Besides, as far as I could 

 ascertain from what I saw in the geographical 

 and physical classes, as also in the chemical 

 laboratory, the system of " through the hand to 

 the brain," and vice versd, is in full swing, and it 



ments of the school, however, are so interesting that they 

 deserve more than a short mention. 



