New Britain herald., 1919-01-31
AMERICAN
bhNICAL SCHOOL
dnized to Make Immigrant
More Useful Citizen Of Country

Realizing that the lack of elemen
tary education and intelligence nave
greatly contributed to the present
chaotic condition in Russia, the Rus
SLAMS in this country have begun to
organize schools and colleges.
/ The first attempt to give the Rus
sian proper education, manual as
we'll as industrial, was made in New
York at the initiative of the Russian
engineer, S. l. Kosh<in who, with the
assistance Of Gea. n. NJ. Krahroff
Fred Coudert and James Edbort, di-
rector extension teaching, Columbia
university has founded the first Rus
sian American technical. school. The
Y M G, A. also materially assisted
in the formation of the school by en-
listing the aid of the heads Of this Or
ganization, and by allowing the use of
their automobile school.
The chief aim of this school is to
make the Russian immigrant a bet
ter and more useful citizen by sup
plying him with the necessary tech
nical and general education. This
school also made it possible for a
good many Russians to continue their
education in the colleges of this
country by giving them first elemen-
tary preparatory educati ton, necessary
for entrance in these institutions.
The school at present numbers 245
pupils, who come here from every
neighboring city to specialize in varr
Gus subjects.
Realizing the Importance of &C
quainting the students not only with
the language but also with the meth
DDS and forms of the government of
this country great stress is laid in
teaching these subjects to the cd
dents of the school.
At present the staff of the school
consists of S. NJ. Koshkin, the direc-
tor, P. NJ. Peroff the secretary, Gen.
N. M. khrabroff, Colonel n. G. Cor
nikoff, Engineer Stopanoff, Engineer
M. P. Bourginsky Engineer J. Bour-
nlistof, Engineer D. Magul. DR.. Krin-
kin and S. Geiman. The New oYrk
bureau Of education has also appoint
ed two instructors in English and
two practical instructors in electric
ity to this school. The curriculum in
this school is varied. Among it's sub
jects are arithmetic. algebra, geome-
try, trigonometry, drawing, Russian
and English languages, automobile
practice and theory. electrical engi-
neer1ng in theory and practice, and
various lectures on machinery
Aside from the school attending
I the students are also very often en-
joying lectures by Professor Petroun-
kevich, of Yale University, Professor
l. GalatzlIy, and Count Tolstoy. The
students are also often taken to mu-
! seums and other educational places
Similar schools were established in
I Connecticut dol nh
but the largest and next in import
ance to the New York Russian Tech
/ nical school is the Chicago Peoples
| University, founded by Professor c. I.
| Novakovsky.
! This school in the largest Russian
| center has met with great success.
! The subjects studied in this school
are numerous The school aims not
only to educate it's students in this
country, but considers it very import
ant the sending of these students i'm
med1ately to Russia where they can
practice their acquired knowledge.
The Chicago Russian Peoples Uni
versity is also publishing pamphlets
dwelling upon various American in
stitutiohs and industrial life. The
school has hundreds of students and
promises to be a great educational
center among the Russian people in
this country.
So great is the need of educational
among the Russian in this country
and so important is the subject, that
a convention of all the Russian edu-
cational institutions and of other
agencies interested in furthering edu-
cation among the Russians, is being
called in Chicago on the 9th day OF
this month.
The convention will consider such
questions as organizing of extension
courses, opening of a Russian Ameri-
can Commercial Institute, organizing
of &, travelling lecture bureau, organ
izing of a commission to study the
manual and industrial training ir
this country, and other subjects OF
similar importance.
The foundation laid by the de.
scribed schools will, no doubt, play {
very important and great part in The
future reconstruction OF Russia.