The Indianapolis journal., 1904-01-24
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Panama canal and can converse upon any
phase OF the question. in which they take
great interest. Both have spoken upon sew
eTal occasions before clubs OF this city. and
also have written several articles dealing
with the subject. They take great interest
in their studies. and so ambitious is Jorge
that he has purchased him a typewriter
which has the Spanish accent keys.
However even if the foreigners depart
ment this season is not up to what it should
be, the rest OF the school has had an ex-
ceptionally prosperous year The trouble.
IL is claimed. with the foreigners in this
city is the fact that there are hardly
enough of them. as in cities like Chicago.
New York and San Francisco, where these
schools are well attended
The method by which the tuition of the
students is paid is that each pays S1O.
and this admits him rs a member of the
Association as well as to the school. He
has the privilege of the gymnasium baths
ana reading room and all the advantages
OF a complete membership. IT is said. how
ever, that when the students begin TO take
too much interest in the work which is not
connected directly with the school it inter-
feres with their studies.
NIGHT SCHOOL.
The object that the Young Mems Chris
tan Association is trying TO accomplish is
to have a complete night school system. to
include all of the Associat tions in the United
States. This will be called the international
school system of this Association and will
unity the work. Regular examinations will
be held as in any educational institution,
and diplomas will be issued, which will be
recognized by many of the leading colleges
of this country. AS one of the instructors
said:
Examinations have proven most valuable
exercises in association work, for the reason
that they serve as most helpful stimulus
to many teachers and students encourage
them to acquire a thoroughness and def
inteness in the work. 1t has also been
shown that they are valuable exercises in
the writing of English. as they require
concise and comprehensive statement.
Often you find pupils who know a thing
and can express il orally, but when they
come to putting their thoughts down on
paper they miss the idea completely: and
II is for this reason that we intend to hold
the examinations. number of our leading
colleges have said that they would recog-
nize our diplomas the same as those that
come, from any other frst-class institu-
tiOn."
There are eight instructors in this school
Some of them teach classes three times a
week. others twice week The trouble
that the local Y. Nj. c. A. is experiencing is
that there is not enough available space
to manage the school on the basis that is
desired In other cities different branches
that help man in his vocation. As, for
instance in New York on the Bowery. there
is one of these schools which has a civil
service class that prepares men for the po-
lice and fire departments and last year
forty of its pupils passed as policemen. In
Boston this Association conducts an auto
mobile school, which teaches the pupils not
only how 10 drive the machines, but how TO
to build and repair them. and in Minneap-
oils there is a class for stationary-engine
firemen, to which nearly all the men en-
ployed at this work in the city belong. In
many places they conducting day
schools for the commercial branches, and
in fact all the Young Mems Christian AS
sociations are acquiring a school system of
no small proportions.
In speaking of the school system one of
the officers said:
THE Rev. Newell Dwight Hills said that
his heart goes out to the thousands of
young men who cannot afford college edu-
cation. We feel the same way about this
question, and il is for this class that the
schools of the Young Mems Christian Asso-
citation were organized They are meeting
with great success In all of the colleges
of the United States the total attendance
is about 10000 while with the Y. NJ C. A.
their total attendance is 27234 and the en-
rollment is 80, GOO. We are not engaged in a
charity, as many may think. but our work
is more of philanthropy We believe our
students feel more like working when they
pay a nominal fee for what they get We
work upon the basis that the large colleges
do-for so much money that the student
funds. Take Yale College, for instance.
$1,000 or more taken from the endowment
fund