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technical schools, and sixteen colleges or universities that have technical departments. 17

An examination of a few of these institutions will give some conception of the character of their equipment, their method of work, and their educational standpoint.

The North Carolina College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts, located at Raleigh, owning six hundred acres of land and well-equipped work shops, laboratories, and drawing-rooms, is comprehensive in its course of work. It offers instruction in agriculture, embracing horticulture and agricultural chemistry. It is well recognized in the South that little more can be done for agriculture until a generation is educated that can read the bulle- tins and apply the methods of science. The work in engineering includes civil, mechanical, mining, and electrical courses.

The most significant new development is the opening of courses in textile industry. This work has developed through the demand of the cotton-mills for designers, mill architects, over- seers of weaving, and managers. Instruction, both theoretical and practical, is given in cotton-manufacturing. The theories of spinning, weaving, designing, and dyeing are taught. All the work is carried on in the textile buildirg constructed after the plan of a model cotton-mill and fitted with the most modern cotton-mill machinery. As to the character of further instruc- tion, since it is recognized that the industries for their develop- ment rest primarily upon science, there is an effort made to strengthen the work in all departments 01 science; mathematics, physics, botany, and chemistry receiving special attention. The course in history lays particular emphasis upon the world's great industries, their origin, development, and extent being traced. In addition, the circumstances that led to the invention of various implements and machines, and the place these have had in the evolution of industrial life, are made subjects of investigation.

The Hampton Institute, of Virginia, is unparalleled in at least one particular. It has tried successfully the experiment of educating together along industrial lines the negro and the Indian. They are instructed together in the same class-rooms and

" Report of Industrial Commission, Vol. XV.