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 Moscow school went through a much more searching kind of test—a test that surely will appeal to all truly manly youths and practical men. They passed from the class room to the open market, and took their final examination, not under the eyes of mere inspectors, but in the real world—the open seas of industrial life. Yet in full view of the teacher!

The school at Moscow was destroyed, but others have followed its lead. Kropotkin mentions, for example, Gordon's College, Aberdeen, and there are others. The technical school at Chicago which took Dellavos' school avowedly as its model was started through the generosity of a few rich men in the seventies, and Charles Ham, in his book Manual Training, gives a full account of its work.

There is nothing strange or novel about it—and yet it is bold. At every stage the pupil resumes all he has learned from the first lesson, and then goes forward unflinchingly—recapitulating the industrial life of the world. Drawing is the basis of the work at every stage, so the pupils spend a great deal of time over this subject. But the work is related to history, and even physical geography in the earlier stages. The pupils enter the carpenter's shop, and there they make in wood the patterns they will