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Show PUBLIC TRADE SCHOOLS. With the opening of the publie schools In Philadelphia the Board of Education inaugurated inau-gurated a system which will be watched with interest in all parts of the country. A school vsi opened for the registration of pupils in the study of mechanical arts. The boys and young men will receive practical and not theoretical the-oretical instruction in the arte of bricklaying, carpentry, plastering, psinting, lettering, blaeksmithlng, printing, bookbinding, electrical elec-trical construction, and, in short, all the trades roost useful in present-day civilized communities.. The course of instruction is iatended to be thorough, and a three-years' course of diligent drill is expected to -gie the students a mastery of the trades they ' bit seversllv elect to study. Their trade department of a eity's public pub-lic schools will be watched with unusual interest in-terest by both employer and employees. |