Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The American Journal of Education, 1870, Vol. 21
Evening Classes of elementary instruction for young persons in his em ployment whose school education had been neglected, and of instruction in drawing, chemistry and mechanics for such of his adult workmen as chose to avail themselves of it. In 1854, his plan was expanded into a regularly organized School of Mechanics and Engineering. As the re sources from which he intended to endow it accumulated, be included courses of practical agriculture, horticulture turd landscape gardening; and finally, on the breaking out of the war, he signified his purpose to alternate the practical work of the shop and the field with military drill. The institution thus projected and expanded was a. Comprehensive Poly technic School - which would at once supply through its evening classes the deficient elementary schooling of his own workmen, meet the wants of technical instruction in any occupation in the community in which he lived, and offer a thorough scientific basis for the practical training of the agriculturist, the architect, the engineer, the machinist, the designer, the manufacturer, the miner and metallurgist, as well as of the candi date for any other of the leading industries of the country.
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