dations as his several teachers may think
likely to be of encouragement or caution to him.

In addition to the strictly technical training furnished by the
college, there is given also not a little collateral instruction
calculated to be of practical use to business men. For example, after
roll call every morning some little time is spent in exercises designed
to cultivate the art of intelligent expression of ideas. Each day a
number of students are appointed to report orally, in the assembly room,
upon such matters or events mentioned in the previous day's newspapers
as may strike the speaker as interesting or important. Or the student
may describe his personal observation of any event, invention,
manufacture, or what not; or report upon the condition, history, or
prospects of any art, trade, or business undertaking. This not to teach
elocution, but to train the student to think while standing, and to
express himself in a straightforward, manly way.

Instruction is also given in the languages likely to be required in
business intercourse or correspondence; in phonography, so far as it may
be required for business purposes; commercial law relative to contracts,
negotiable paper, agencies, partnerships, insurance, and other business
proceedings and relations; political economy, and incidentally any and
every topic a knowledge of which may be of practical use to business
men.

In all this the ultimate end and aim of the instruction offered are
practical workable results. Mr. Packard regards education as a tool. If
the tool has no edge, is not adapted to its purpose, is not practically
usable, it is worthless as a tool. This idea is kept prominent in all
the work of the college, and its general results justify the position
thus taken. The graduates are not turned out as finished business men,
but as young men well started on the road toward that end. As Mr.
Packard puts it: "Their diplomas do not recommend them as bank cashiers
or presidents, or as managers of large or small enterprises, but simply
as having a knowledge of the duties of accountantship. They rarely fail
to fulfill reasonable expectations; and they are not responsible for
unreasonable ones."

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AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF ARCHITECTS.

The fourteenth annual convention of the American Institute of Architects
began in Philadelphia, November 17. Mr. Thomas U. Walter, of
Philadelphia, presided, and fifty or more pr