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city of 20,1300 inliabitants, and in every county where th% 

 |3opuIation was large enougk and tke necessities required, 

 nt would be of incalculable advantage to the young men 

 (residing in that locality and of great benefit to the com- 

 munity at large. It would be the means of developing 

 the power and faculties of the youth, while it would awak- 

 en a healthy rivalry and competition among the different 

 manufa'Oturing ■concerns who require skilled workmen. 

 There would be no need of sending abroad for trained em- 

 gineers, desigiyers or foremen. But we should be con- 

 stantly supplying the demand from our home resources and 

 at the same time offering to oiw young men facilities fora 

 «ound and thorough education which would largely increase 

 their chances of success. 



To recur a moment to a point already alluded to. Why 

 should not equal prominence be given in our common 

 school system to the principles and practice of a trade as 

 as afforded for a classical and college preparation? There 

 as not a high school in the land but what gives all who de- 

 sire it the preparation necessary for a collegiate educa- 

 tion, while there is not one, to my knowledge, that in- 

 structs boys or girls in any branch of mechanical industry. 

 And yet the number who are obliged to work at a trade is 

 verj'^ much greater than the number who enter college. 



If the principle underlying our public school system is 

 the preparing of youth for active work in all departments 

 of human industry, then it stands to reason that the eye 

 and hand should be as well trained as the brain. 



Every student in our high schools should receive daily 

 instruction in free hand drawing for at least a part of their 

 course so that discipline of the ideas of form and propor- 

 tion may be secured, and the student when he undertakes 

 shop-work may make more rapid and satisfactory progress 

 than he could do if he had not had the advantage of this 

 training. And again, the hours devoted to practice in the 



