The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1902-09-03

glance at the register of visitors shows
that well-known people from all over
the world have come to visit this far
reaching American enterprise.
The possibilities of correspondence in
struction are unlimited. or course. the
lack of personal instructor must be
Offset by great clearness IN the spe-
cial textbooks used. and by careful cor
rcction of the students work. But as
| the International Correspondence
Schools assume that each student
knows nothing of the subject he is
studying when he starts on his course.
they make sure that he has the proper
foundation for the advanced work.
With competent instructor an ambi-
tious student can easily master almost
any line of technical training. This
does not except even lines of work re-
quiring laboratory practice. Where
ever required, the schools arrange to
provide students with experimental out
fits and apparatus. This is the case in
the Drawing, Designing, Electrical,
Metallurgical and Chemical courses.
In the last the student is required to
make blowpipe or chemical analyses
of unlabelcd substances sent to him
i.Oili ScIdHloll, anu tHe dcCuIdcy WIFI
which these determinations are made
would surprise many college student.
After all, it is the man and not the
opportunity that makes success.
The International Correspondence
Schools has been a leading factor in the
development of instruction by mail.
Although the Scranton institution is a
business concern operated by stock
company with capital of $3,000,000,
and makes no claim to philanthropy, it
has done and is doing a vast amount of
good. 1t bridges the gap between our
public school system and the collegiate
instruction open only to the favored
few. No really ambitious man need
pass his days in poverty and obscurity
for lack of technical education for his
chosen profession. Uncle Sans postal
service brings to his own home the
schooling that he cannot stop work TO
obtain. The training received by mail
can be tried and utilized in his work,
and the best combination of theory
and practice is thus brought about.
The need of American manufacturers
is for young blood in their great indus
trial enterprises. Hardly can they af-
ford to wait for men to spend four to
eight years in collegiate training for
work that they cannot understand
practically for several years after
graduation. They are glad to hire !
young men, IS to % years of age, who
are willing to learn and earn at the
same time-keeping pace with their in
creasing responsibilities by adding to
their fund of practical technical knowl-
edge. The International Schools make !
10 claim to supplanting technical coll
leges, but they cover field distinctive
~ their own, and in actual benefits |
conferred on the public by increasing |
the general efficiency of American me-
chanics and artisans, stand second to |
nc educational institution in the world.
The Tribune's Offer.
The Scranton Tribune offers five
scholarships i'm the International Cor
respondence Schools to the five young
men or women who are entitled to the
choice of them by reason of their
standing in the Educational Contest.
The winners are entitled 10 selection
of any study of the more than 100 sub
jects taught and also include all instru-
ments and books necessary to the sue
cessful completion of the studies Sc
lected.