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Rh this some technical instruction is given, but the main point of concentration is the preparatory and grammar departments, where the drill is made as thorough as possible. (2). Still more stress is laid upon the training of home-makers. The entire industrial system has this end in view—to prepare the student to be an ideal housekeeper; while the students also associate with the teachers, who are of high culture and refinement and piety, with the view to add to their culture of heart, without which the best housekeeper can never make an ideal home. It is in this way the friends of Scotia account for the fact that their graduates have not become conspicuous social leaders or in public life. As queens of the home many of them have done well. Many of the graduates of Scotia are the faithful wives of noted presidents and professors in many of our best colleges and universities.

More has been done along all the lines of popular education for the higher and broader development of woman during the last twenty-five years than possible during any quarter of a century in the history of American civilization. Especially is this true with regard to professional and industrial education.