This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1888 edition. Excerpt: ...to the interests of that industry. Under their management the college has become ' a great success--as successful, if not more so, than any similar institution in the Union." In 1887 as many students were turned away, for want of room to lodge them, as there were received. Although the college is open ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1888 edition. Excerpt: ...to the interests of that industry. Under their management the college has become ' a great success--as successful, if not more so, than any similar institution in the Union." In 1887 as many students were turned away, for want of room to lodge them, as there were received. Although the college is open to all, yet the son of no rich man attends. The pupils are either wholly destitute of means, or are the sons of farmers of very limited resources. It is emphatically a school for the poor, and it is the intention of the trustees to make it subserve their interests. Distinctions in dress are prohibited, each pupil being clad in a cheap uniform, and no other dress, except a working suiti is allowed to bo worn within five miles of the college. The college is not, in the strictest sense, either literary, classical, or military, but-r.&thex designed to "give the industrial classes a general education, combined with 45 such scientific and practical knowledge as will make them familiar with the nature of the objects and forces with which they have to deal." The instruction given in the way of education in the academic and scientific departments is held to be of the highest importance, and nothing takes precedence over it. The industrial features come next, and with them is joined the assistance which a student, by his work, can obtain pecuniarily. It differs from the old "manual la, bor school," where the important matter was to work enough to pay all expenses; the education received was of secondary consideration, compared-with earning enough money to pay one's way. A boy can not work his way through college by his labor and also get a first-class education. If he labors most of his time he is too tired, physically, to...
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Publisher:
U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington DC
Published:
1888
Language:
English
Alibris ID:
12730748967
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Very good. 8vo. Hardbound, blue cloth over boards. Overall vg condiiton. Lib. of Congress surplus duplicate stamp on front endpaper, binding tight, contents clean. 86 pp., numerous line-drawn, and four b&w photographic illustrations, one fold-out classroom plan.