The Archive · 1926

Theory and Practice

Dean Schneider did not turn on. his heel and leave his objectors, saying that, because they hadn't had a collesze education themselves, they were jealous of his students, who knew more than even tha heads of the works. No! He feeed the facts. He knew that a combination of circumstances had: made American manufacturers ious of bringing students into employ, and he set about re-me dying the defect.

He conceived the idea of mak-ug a bargain with the managers, of works so that two of his students could take the job of one man in a. workshop. One of the two students went at once and worked at the job, while his partner went to his classroom work in the University. At—the end of a month, the two students changed places, the man in the classroom going to the factory, and the other man coming to the classroom to take the identical lectures that his partner had just This" alternating of class-room and factory was kept up all through the five years of the University course, the _agreement being that, as soon as the pair of students were adepts in the factory at one place of work, they fore transferred to another,

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