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126 twenty-four students, aside from the family in charge. While the cottages, like all the buildings, are simple and plain architecturally, they are thoroughly convenient and homelike.

All these students take their meals in the common dining hall in the main building. After a glance at the power-house and laundry, the electric light building and other minor features of the school plant, a visit would be paid to the three different shops where more than two hundred picked young men spend specified hours of each day in learning and practicing trades they have elected to learn. Every new student spends six months in the wood-working department before entering upon the course of his chosen trade. These trades are classified in three principal divisions: woodworking, including carpentering, pattern and cabinet making, house finishing, the construction of roofs, doorways and the like; building, including the mixing of mortar and cement, the laying of stone and brick, the setting of ranges, furnaces and boilers, laying tiles and the building of arches and tunnels; and machinery, including the use of tools and appliances, accurate