FAIR, 1895.
 

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an Instruction Committee of the Board. The
school was fortunate in securing, at a very
early stage of its existence, the services of Dr.
Henry M. I^eipziger as Director of Instruction,
who was succeeded, upon his promotion to a
wider field of usefulness, as Assistant Superin¬
tendent of Public Schools, by Dr. Otto A.
Moses, formerly the Chairman of the Instruc¬
tion Committee. Since June, 1893, Mr. Edgar
S. Barney has been the Principal, having been
promoted to this-position from the head master¬
ship.

The school has at present upwards of two
 

branches as for the Technical branches proper.
Persons who have not visited the school fre¬
quently ignore this fact, which is an outcome
of existing conditions. Were the manual
training and shop work alone taught to boys
dependent upon the public schools for their
intellectual progress, the hours at which tech¬
nical teaching could be imparted would fol¬
low on the regular school time. How many
machines would be required for the training
of two hundred boys from 3:30 to 5 p.m.?
By taking the boys into the school from 9
to   5   daily,   the   hours can   be   distributed
 

Technical Instiiute.
 

hundred boys in actual attendance, and has
reached the limit of its capacity. The
number of applicants is steadily growing, and
if more are to be accepted, additional space
and money will be needed. Now the income
and expenditure nearly balance, although
there would be an annual deficit if it were not
for occasional windfalls in the shape of gifts
and bequests.

The course is thoroughly graded, and re¬
quires three years' study ; it makes just as
good   provision  for the   "Common School"
 

in such a way that the classes succeed each
other in the various shops and class-rooms
— no more than thirty boys being taught the
same subject at the same hour. Another
advantage arises from the sandwiching of
manual labor between hours of mental work
—the one acts as a relaxation from the
other, and the listlessness of the ordinary
schoolboy is rarely noticeable. Best of all,
while receiving a thorough education in
Drawing, Carpentry, Turning, Metal Work
and Electrical Construction, the boys advance