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Petition to the Legislature 609 wood may be done by admitting apprentices to an evening school." Could this, let it be asked, be practicable, if the mechanical department were located elsewhere than Chicago? Continuing, Mr. Hoadley says: " Practical knowledge can best be conveyed by actual practice and example. Eastman's Commercial College at Poughkeepsie, New York, is an example of this. Every branch of commercial occupation being seriously and practically carried on in the ordinary working of the College. What the moot court is to the lawyer, what clinical lectures in the Hospital are to the physician, that is the laboratory and workshop to the young mechanic, and the model farm to the young agriculturist." And upon the two points of the separation of the several branches of Agriculture and Mechanics into separate institutions, and the location of the mechanical department, Mr. Hoadley says: " F o r separate special schools, which seem most desirable, the best location for the school of agriculture would be on a farm of suitable size, near a large city. * * * * And the best location for the school of mechanics would be in, or at least quite close to, a large and business city, where workshops would furnish constant objects of study, and opportunities for applying acquired knowledge, and where rising blocks, and monuments would illustrate whole volumes of technology.'' And in confirmation of the idea already advanced by the undersigned, in regard to the greater excellence of the instruction in the several departments of agriculture and mechanics, and after speaking of different studies, common to both these branches, Mr. Hoadley says: " Yet the more perfect the special instruction in each school, the more marked would be the divergence, not only of the objects of study, but of the modes of treatment and illustration proper to each, in those very sciences which were a common topic of instruction to both." In the same letter Mr. Hoadley gives, in tabular form, the studies in such a course of mechanical and agricultural instruction, as he would recommend. From which it appears that con-
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