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Under the auspices of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the Lowell Institute Evening School for Industrial Foremen offers two courses in industrial science, one mechanical and the other electrical, each extending over two years. They are intended for young men in industrial pursuits who desire to fit themselves for higher positions. No fee is charged...
...much better, he said, to have substantial instruction of a high grade given by a few of the most eminent and stimulating teachers than to have superficial or merely entertaining courses of a popular nature. As illustrations of the better policy he cited the school for industrial foremen conducted jointly by the Lowell Institute and the Institute of Technology, and the collegiate courses now being given by the co-operation of the Lowell Institute and Harvard University...
...direct that the professors supported from this endowment be provided with suitable assistance in their several departments, by the appoinment of instructors of lower grades, and of draughtsmen, foremen, mechanics, clerks or assistants, as occasion may require, my desire being that the professors be free to devote themselves to whatever part of the teaching requires the greatest skill and largest experience, and to the advancement of their several subjects...
...years - to the sort of people who established it. I went to the admission books in which the occupations of parents of students are recorded, and found to my great satisfaction that more than a quarter part of its students are to-day sons of tradesmen, shopkeepers, mechanics, salesmen, foremen, laborers and farmers. I found sons of butchers, coopers, grocers and clothworkers - the Harvard trades - on the roll of its students today. May no restrictive policy or spirit ever separate the university which bears John Harvard's name from that laborious, frugal, self-respecting part of the community to which...