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235 Educational Developments 235 technical schools, Drexel Institute in Philadelphia and Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, to offer a course of instruction covering one college year for students wishing to enter nursing schools, the students living at their own expense and paying their own tuition. The course was entirely optional, a few training schools allowing six months' credit on the regular training to students bringing such prepara- tion. In 1904 a similar course of six months was offered at the Toronto Technical School, students entering the Toronto General hospital being re- quired to complete this course or its equivalent before admission. About the same time Simmons College, Boston, arranged a four months' required course for stu- dents from the Massachusetts General and the Children's hospitals, the students in this case living in the hospitals but paying their own tuition fees. The connection with Massachusetts General was severed later, but the Children's still sends its students to Simmons for their preparatory course. About the same time (1904), a similar short course was opened in the Kansas State Agricultural College, to which nurses from Christ's hospital were sent. In 1910, the University of North Dakota offered a course of eight months in con- nection with its medical school, and for a year or