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also a two-year course in gardening, the practical side of which is developed 

 in the gardens of the new hostel at Heworth Green. For those students 

 who have only a little knowledge of biology but desire to be able to teach 

 nature study, a one-year course in elementary biology is available. Finally, 

 in the education course, lectures are given to all students on the teaching 

 of science. There are two laboratories provided for the use of the 

 students. 



Further Education. 



The School of Art, which has now 327 pupils on register, provides 

 group courses of instruction in junior art, industrial art, architecture, 

 painting, sculpture, design and crafts, and the teaching of art. The 

 courses of instruction aim at giving a sound training in the subjects 

 suitable to the needs of the artistic profession, trade, or craft in which 

 the student is engaged or is interested, and to develop individual artistic 

 ability. The school is working on modern lines and every effort is made 

 to link up art with industry. 



The Day School of Commerce, which was first opened in the year 1920, 

 in temporary premises in Bootham, now meets at the Technical Institute. 

 The school provides specialised courses of instruction for students who 

 desire to obtain positions in the commercial world. The curriculum, 

 however, has not been confined within narrow limits, and it has been 

 the aim of the school to give a liberal education to all its students in 

 addition to a training in commerce. The steady growth of the school 

 testifies to its usefulness. There are now 120 students on register. 

 Qualified pupils from this school seldom fail to find employment. 



The Technical Institute, Clifford Street, provides day courses of instruc- 

 tion for engineers, railway carriage builders, and others, and evening 

 courses for those engaged in the building trades, mechanical engineering, 

 electrical engineering, motor engineering, carriage and wagon building, 

 telegraphists, chemists, printers, bakers and confectioners, and for those 

 wishing to prepare for the A.M.I.M.E. Examination, Matriculation or 

 the Inter B.Sc. There are 135 day students, and 457 attending evening 

 classes. 



Evening Institutes are held on the premises of four of the large Council 

 schools, namely, Fishergate, Park Grove, Scarcroft Road, and Poppleton 

 Road, where group courses of instruction are provided leading up to 

 the trade courses at the Technical Institute and to the senior commercial 

 classes at the Evening Institute of Commerce. Recreative classes are 

 also held at Layerthorpe Evening Institute. The Evening Institute of Com- 

 merce is held at the Castlegate Council School and on the Queen Anne 

 Secondary School premises. Advanced classes are held in commercial 

 subjects, languages, economics, banking, etc. Provision is also made at 

 this institute for retail traders' apprentices, butchers and grocers, etc. 

 The number of students in attendance last session was over 660. 



The York University Extension Society was formed over fifty years aga 

 as a voluntary organisation making itself responsible for organising, 

 during the winter months, courses of evening lectures by lecturers eminent 

 in their particular spheres. The subjects are of social, historical, literary 



