AND INDUSTRY. 
SCIENCE 
provision for this necessary supplementary aid to the training of manager, 
foremen, and operatives, and it is a deficiency which should be met if the industry 
is to develop as it should. 
In the Technical College of Bradford, Yorkshire, the instruction provided for 
training in the principles of preparing, combing, and spinning of wool into 
yarn, covers three years’ attendance at day lectures and practical experience. 
The course in weaving and designing covers a similar period, as also does the 
course in dyeing. This will convey some idea of the importance attached to 
technical. training in the centre of the trade in England. Evening classes are 
provided for those engaged in the industry in the day time, and also cover a 
three years’ course; but the courses are further subdivided so that those engaged: 
in any particular branch of the industry may attend classes in which they can 
receive theoretical and practical training in the occupations they follow during 
SCOURED WOOL PRODUCED, 
61,439,875 Lbs. 
USED LOCALLY, 
Zz 9,622,491 Lbs. 
the day. Similar facilities, both as to day and evening courses, are provided 
at other centres, such as Leeds, Halifax, Huddersfield, &¢. These colleges have: 
only in recent years assumed the extent and importance they now hold. They 
have developed from small beginnings. For instance, in’ Halifax, the first 
attempt at this kind of instruction was made in connexion with the Mechanies’ 
Institute and Literary Society over twenty years ago. The instruction was at 
first theoretical only, but the demand led. to an increase in the facilities, and 
these were provided gradually, until in a few years a complete plant had been 
secured, and students were able to receive practical as well as_ theoretical 
instruction. The machinery necessary for the establishment of a Textile 
Technical College could be secured for an expenditure of about £3,000. If the- 
industry is to develop on right lines, the establishment of such facilities for 
study and practice is absolutely essential. 
Scientific thought does not mean thought about 
scientific subjects with long names. There are no 
scientific subjects. The subject of science is the 
human universe; that is to say, everything that is, 
or has been, or may be related to man. 
—W. K. CLIFFORD. 
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