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Rh The Technical High School at Charlottenburg, Germany

legion of errors without detection until the products of his experimentation are placed upon the market, as experience has frequently proved.

Drawing is made a most important branch of study. It lies at the basis of a large majority of advanced studies and is the A B C in the curriculum of many a trade school. In day schools, evening schools, and Sunday schools it is the same thing — drawing! drawing! It is an aid, rather than an injury, to the memory. It trains the mind as well as the eye. It is as great an aid to the reasoning powers as is logic or mathematics.

Experience in Germany apparently shows that, as a rule, those schools

which are under private management exact the highest tuition fees and are the most inefficient.

Out of 519 students who attended the commercial high school of Leipzig in 1902-1903 213 were foreigners (110 of these Russians). Another striking illustration is found in the tanning school of Freiberg, Saxony, where 42 out of 76 students enrolled in 1902-1903 were foreigners. In 1903 the ten technical high schools had an enrollment of 2,242 foreigners out of a total attendance of 14,426.

These hundreds of foreigners return to their various countries and there give no mean aid in the development of industries which are in direct competition