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Title: Catalogue
Year: 1913 (1910s)
Authors: New Bedford Textile School New Bedford Textile Institute New Bedford Institute of Textiles and Technology New Bedford Institute of Technology
Subjects: New Bedford Textile School New Bedford Textile Institute New Bedford Institute of Textiles and Technology New Bedford Institute of Technology
Publisher: New Bedford, Mass. : New Bedford Textile School
Contributing Library: Claire T. Carney Library, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston Library Consortium Member Libraries

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licbuildings. THE SCHOOL AND ITS PURPOSE. The Legislature of the Commonwealth of Massachu-setts, in the Act under which the Trustees of the NewBedford Textile School were incorporated, gives as thepurpose of the incorporation that of establishing andmaintaining a textile school for instruction in the theoryand practical art of textiles and kindred branches ofindustry. As New Bedford is primarily a cotton-manufacturingcity, this school confines itself principally to instructionin the cotton branch of the textile industry and seeks toperfect itself in this line. Its course of instruction i^arranged to subserve the interests of two general classesof students: (1) day students, those who give their wholetime for two or three years to acquiring the theory as wellas the practice of cotton manufacturing in all its details,from the raw cotton to the finished fabric, and also haveinstruction in the scientific principles which underlie theconstruction of the machinery and its operation, and the
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15 artistic principles which are involved in the productiondesirable and ornamental fabrics; 2 evening student those who arc employed in the mills during the day and who, by attending the Textile Scl I evenings, are abl< learn other phases of the industry from that m which tlare employed, or to perfect themselves in tlof work, and become more efficient workmen. The counof instruction for these two classes of Btudents are (rivenfully on other pages of this catalogue. The whole of the machinery in the school is absolutelymodern, being constructed especially for the school, h isall high grade, has latest improvements, and is especiallybuilt to afford facilities for all kinds of experimental work,and represents all the Leading types of machines from thebest builders in the United States, and several Englishbuilders. There is no mill in which there is SO large B variety ofmachinery as in the New Bedford Textile School. Thisconsequently affords the student a belter opportunity tobecome a

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