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that here where the studont would have no chance fro see the things which are done in the great shops, no chance of visible contact with the organization of great industries; that here we should found and develop a center to which the students are resorting in ever larger numbers• Why the idea seemed to be absurd! How has it come to be realized?* In the first place by the recognition of that fundamental fact that there are certain things whioh a boy may learn in a school more rapidly and more efficiently and more thoroughly than he can learn in the same time in practice. Again that he can learn this by giving his whole time and attention to these particular intellectual occupations which the mastery of the curriculum compels. In other words, a recognition of the fact that we can block out a curriculum whioh will take all the student's time to such an extent that he has no opportunity to visit great machine shops or great industrial enterprises, I mean visit them regularly every day, but whioh requires him to spend his entire time, and all his energies and all his thought upon the things whioh the school can give to him. The seoond element in this success has been the important fact that we have had men here in this work, elaborating and teaching it, who have been on the job ©very hour in the day, and you may say for every day in the year. In other words we have not attempted to build
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