It was further required that they must work
for ten hours during the day at some trade or industry, and study
academic branches for two hours during the evening. This was the
requirement for the first one or two years of their stay. They were
to be paid something above the cost of their board, with the
understanding that all of their earnings, except a very small part,
were to be reserved in the school's treasury, to be used for paying
their board in the regular day-school after they had entered that
department. The night-school, started in this manner, has grown until
there are at present four hundred and fifty-seven students enrolled in
it alone.
There could hardly be a more severe test of a student's worth than
this branch of the Institute's worth. It is largely because it
furnishes such a good opportunity to test the backbone of a student
that I place such high value upon our night-school. Any one who is
willing to work ten hours a day at the brick-yard, or in the laundry,
through one or two years, in order that he or she may have the
privilege of studying academic branches for two hours in the evening,
has enough bottom to warrant being further educated.
After the student has left the night-school he enters the day-
school, where he takes academic branches four days in a week, and
works at his trade two days.
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