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shops, and all the indications are that they work well together. The elements characteristic of the two races serve to balance one the other, the diversities in many instances proving a help to their mutual development. The Indian, reserved, self-controlled, slow in speech, and defiant, is confronted with the vivacious, buoyant, and demonstrative negro. 18 While every attempt to educate the Indian with white youth has proved a failure, this school is a success. The methods used in dealing with the students are best described by the principal of the institution :

When they come into the school, we do not put them into books, we take them to our laboratory. For instance, every boy and girl is put into the chemical laboratory and the physical laboratory, where they get the first principles of these things so that they shall know something about air and water and soil. Then they begin to write about these things, and they begin to talk about them, and then gradually we introduce them to books; but we put the doing of the thing first all the way through."

The laboratory and field-observation method prevails in all departments, and it is from graduates of this school that the majority of the southern colored schools are furnished with teachers.

Clemson College, South Carolina, has a place peculiarly its own among southern industrial schools. It must be remembered that southern slavery had bred in the white youth, both of the slave-owning and "poor white" class, a contempt for labor. Clemson College has done much to destroy this mental attitude.

This is one of the southern schools that have attempted to maintain other than an entirely commercial standpoint in its industrial training. Its object is not to make mechanics or machinists primarily, but 20 to "educate their minds, broaden their

"Southern Workman, July, 1903.

" H. B. FRISSEL, Industrial Report, Vol. XV, p. 80.

""This is not what is sometimes termed a trade school, giving only element- ary academic studies and a preponderance of shop practice and other manual labor. In all the courses of study offered here the special features are super- structures built upon a solid foundation of good English education. With the exception of irregularities, allowed mature young men, all the courses are for four years. We offer agriculture, civil engineering, electrical engineering, and textile engineering. This present year courses have been put on in biology and metallurgy. Our main purpose in all these courses is to give a scientific training