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Title: Textile school catalog, 1909-1910
Year: 1909 (1900s)
Authors: Pennsylvania Museum and School of Industrial Art
Subjects: Pennsylvania Museum and School of Industrial Art--School catalogs Philadelphia Museum School of Industrial Art--School catalogs Philadelphia Museum School of Art--School catalogs Philadelphia Museum College of Art--School catalogs Philadelphia College of Art-- School catalogs Philadelphia Colleges of the Arts--School catalogs University of the Arts--School catalogs
Publisher: Philadelphia, PA: Pennsylvania Museum and School of Industrial Art
Contributing Library: University of the Arts (Philadelphia), University Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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nd tooutside duties at other times. The hours of the evening school are so few that thestudents attention is necessarily confined to two or threesubjects; the studies are, therefore, largely elective, althoughearnest effort is made to group these electives in the mostprofitable manner. The students of the dav school comefrom all parts of the world. Some of themhave had practical experience, and others come directly fromschools and colleges, the latter having been largely repre-sented in recent years. The advantages of a good prelimin- ary education in enabling the possessor to obtain a quickerand better grasp of principles and to develop them to betterpurpose, are, of course, very great, but bright men who havehad mill experience often make admirable students evenwithout the advantages of a high-school preparation. Thestudents of the evening classes are, as a rule, engaged insome form of textile work, either manufacturing or com-mercial. Many of them come from a considerable distance.
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TKACK AXD TICK-MS COUKT. 23 The Philadelphia Textile School dem-Success of onstrated the practical utility of technical Graduates . . education ui textiles on this continent,and the steady grozuth of the Institution is due to nothingelse so much as to the success of its graduates. The broadand thorough educational policy steadfastly adhered to bythose zvho shape the Schools character, has resulted in thegraduation of a body of young men zuho by reason of thebreadth of their training have been enabled to enter all fieldsof the zvork, and to-day they are zvell and favorably knozunin every textile section of any importance. They are in themill, the dye-house, the commission house, and the machinebuilders, and zvherever found they are proving themselvescapable men and an honor to their alma mater. The School does not undertake to find positions for itsgraduates, but inquiries for bright, energetic, well-trainedmen, are constantly being made, and it affords the officersonly pleasure to fur

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