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tmon ^clitjols furnished free of cost the elements of median'^ 

 acs iind a practice based thereupon, there is no question 

 Ijut what their graduates would quickly find congeuial and 

 well paid work throughout this great country. 



A demai>d comes every year to all the technical schools 

 of oor land for young men trained and educated in some 

 branch of industry to take charge of machine shops, to 

 manage mines and fsictories, to act as superintendents or 

 foremen, to tinal3'zo metals and assay minerals, to plan and 

 'fey out railroads, to be engineers on steam-ships and loco- 

 motives, in fact to occupy places of influence and useful- 

 siess in every branch of industrial work. 



There is again a vast and increasing field of employ-^ 

 meut opening up on every side in the various applications 

 of electricity to the wants and necessities of life. Toen^ 

 ter this field a course of training is needed in the science 

 of electro-chemistry and magnetism. A boy who is taught 

 by practical experiment the principles of this great science 

 with its complex workings, and with its various applica- 

 tions will never find himself out of employment, but be on 

 u sure road to preferment and success. An objection is 

 likely to be made by those who doubt the advantage of in- 

 dustrial training in the schools, viz : that it will inspire 

 boys with a too lofty ambition and make them discontent- 

 ed with their lot in life. When they go out into active life 

 and find themselves side by side with those not so well ed- 

 ucated they will feel that they are fitted for something 

 better than what their companions are doing, and therefore 

 prove uneas}' and dissatisfied workmen. In answer to this 

 I would quote the old saw : "Water always seeks its lev- 

 el."' Whatever a young man is fitted for he will some time 

 attain. If his ideas are too grand a few weeks of rivalry 

 und ctjmpetition will bring them down. He will soon see 

 that he that is faithful in little things will be most surely 

 cntru!5ted with greater responsibilities. And even if his 



