But, the point T want to make, that these men sent out to start} these demonstration plots, were not} produced over nijeht. They had had long trainings both in science and in practice, before they could cone duct such first object therefore in the Agricultural College hus been to! produce just such men, To beg lat the bottom and educate men who were absolutely i of Letters, would have taken a long time, so We collected the students ay and having formed a close of 21, we gave them half time working at actual planting of both trees and and the other half at thew, studies in the class rounes aul laboratories, During their work outside, thre was no difference made betwoon a student and any! other workman, and the students that did not learn to plant as well og the workman, had to drop out the course, At the end of the first term we had only eight of the original 21, but these eight all graduated and are now doing useful work after th tae of what is described th what result those we-anointed with the Collere of Agri cant try of the University' are to be judges. Dean Reisner and star of both Chinese and foreign exports have brought this practice-seientife, (if 1 may coin a word) method to the high state which sets that College where it now stands among Chinese and worldwide Agrieulturs al Institutions, Training in America When T turned my attention to industrial education, I found ready at hand a large number of Chinese Students in the American Universities, who were pursuing studies, which in most cases were not being followed up by any practical work. Students of this type had been returning to China for some yests, bit naturally nut having had. practical training, were fit only to os tenchers, and such teachers could not of cause produce practic-
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