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Show I 1 liiiaiKa il i. Li i:c J tijtjjL.b i New Kind of School at Portland, Ore., Is Attended by Old i and Young. (Prepared by the United States Department Depart-ment of Agriculture.) Out in Portland, Ore., a new kind of school has been started which has uo truant officer, gives no degrees, and is attended by young and old college graduates as well as some who didn't go through high school. It's not a large school only 30 at last reports, who meet once a week for an intensive course in grain grading, because they are interested in grading grain under federal standards, administered by the United States department of agriculture. agricul-ture. The school is held once a week outside of business hours in the office of the federal grain supervisor. Among the students are grain dealers, dock superintendents and foremen, and state grain men. It has been necessary to divide the school into two classes to take care of the new men who come in. The "senior" class now 'thoroughly understands under-stands how to analyze and grade samples tinder federal standards and can answer properly questions relating relat-ing to inspection and sampling. 'The school will be continued as long as anyone wishes to attend. |