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BOB Hillary University of Illinois tear of machinery, would swell thin sum to extravagant proportions Fo* all this expenditure the State, or its representative, the institution* would receive as its sole compensation the fees or tuition advanced by the students in attendance. No sa~ gacious man can lor a moment suppose that such a shop could be converted into a manufactory of costly implements or machinery. What Railroad company would seek such an establishment at which to buy a locomotive? What manufacturer would go there to purchase an engine of any kind? The work might be well done, but it would have the stigma of experimental practice resting on i t Under such circumstances, therefore, and without those aids to practical instruction, the mechanical student in such single institution could acquire nothing but theory, and he would at last be obliged to resort to some shop where, beginning with the first rudimcntal principles, he could go through his whole course of studies before the world would acknowledge him or he could justly claim to be a competent mechanic. A model shop, at all adequate to the purposes of affording practical instruction, could by no reasonable possibility be selfsupporting. Of all kinds of business, manufacturing, when largely carried on, is perhaps the most hazardous, and nothing short of the strong incentive of personal gain can render it successful. All these objections are at once obviated by locating the mechanical department at Chicago. Here the actual supersedes the model machine shop. And by as much as responsible labor under the eye and direction of a competent master, is superior to experimental practice under the advice of an instructor, by so much would the shops of Chicago be superior to the model establishments of a preliminary school of instruction. Hitherto the undersigned have spoken for themselves. But they are not without authorities, some of which they propose to submit. In his letter to the undersigned, 1 H. Hoadley, one of the first practical i | | and machinists in Massachusetts, says: ftlf conven§ntly located (the Mechanical School), much
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