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3. Department of Library Economy. 



4. Department of Domestic Arts and Sciences, 

 (a) Normal Course. 



(6) Courses in cooking, sewing, dressmaking, mil- 

 linery and household economy. 



5. Department of Art. 



6. Department of Evening Instruction. 



Dr. Alderson closes his summary witli 

 these words of sterling advice : " The Car- 

 negie School of Technology should be a pro- 

 test against sxirface education ; it should edu- 

 cate the hand and eye as well as the mind ; 

 it should emphasize the doing element in edu- 

 cation ; it should be essentially a school of 

 applied sciences ; and finally it should enter 

 the broad field of technical education, sup- 

 plying useful knowledge to boys and girls, 

 young men and young women. The Car- 

 negie School of Technology, located in a 

 center of industrial activity, on grounds 

 naturally beautiful and attractive, carefully 

 planned and thoughtfully administered, can 

 be made to bear the same relation to the 

 great work of technical education that 

 Columbia College does to university educa- 

 tion, and thus become a technical school 

 second to none. 



Dr. Gray recommends that the institute 

 should ofler a course of instruction cover- 

 ing the whole nine years of study ; that it 

 be divided into two distinct schools, a sec- 

 ondary and upper secondary, and a higher 

 college or professional school. He advises 

 that the secondary school commence above 

 the grade schools with a minimum age 

 limit of 14 years, and that the course 

 of instruction should include all the sub- 

 jects commonly given in the best high 

 schools, with the possible exception of Latin 

 and Greek, and in addition the subjects 

 more commonly given in business schools 

 or colleges ; along with this course of class 

 room instruction, provision should be made 

 for practical instruction, either manual or 

 otherwise, bearing upon the particular 

 branch of industry which the scholar in- 



tends to enter. The duration of this course 

 should be about four years, as at present in 

 city schools, but should be freed from a 

 number of subjects that are of little use to 

 the ordinary artisan class. Dr. Gray rec- 

 ommends a good sound course in English 

 for students of the secondary school, but 

 does not recommend a study of foreign 

 languages. 



One of the most important, if not the 

 most important, recommendations made by 

 Dr. Gray is that in regard to the upper 

 school. I quote his language : 



"This school can be made to fill the 

 place which the present technical colleges 

 have failed to do, namely, provide a college 

 education for men of the rank of shop fore- 

 men, superintendents, etc. In this course, 

 which should be of two years' duration, in- 

 struction can be given in such subjects as 

 the design of structures and machinery, the 

 properties of materials and machines, the 

 design and management of power stations, 

 telegraphy, and train signal systems, the 

 surveying and construction of railway beds, 

 civil engineer's and architect's office work, 

 finer kinds of machine work and a host of 

 other subjects, the understanding being that 

 these subjects be treated in such a manner 

 that practical information shall be the object 

 rather than fundamental mathematical 

 principles." 



Other matters of importance are sug- 

 gested in this part of Dr. Gray's report, 

 one of which is that as there would probably 

 be those in this course who would find it 

 impossible to take the higher or technical 

 college education, this upper secondary 

 school would serve as a most excellent 

 preparation for the same. 



Dr. Gray recommends that the technical 

 college or professional school be open only to 

 a selected small number of students who 

 have shown special fitness for the work, and 

 that the entrance requirements should be 

 considerably higher than is usual in existing 



