Parliamentary Papers, 第 47 卷

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第 219 頁 - There is good reason to fear that if the pupils of the Polytechnic School were left free to choose between the posts offered by private industry and those reserved for them by the Government, the cleverest of them would give the preference to industry, which assures them positions, if not more honourable, at least more liberally remunerated ; hence might result great prejudice to the State. The Government seems to be aware of this, for it has already forbidden its engineers to serve any other companies...
第 197 頁 - ... the material aids of technical instruction. ORGANIZATION. This establishment is a kind of technical university, which, in addition to scientific studies of a high order, comprises in its organization several special divisions. The first of these is devoted not merely to mathematical science, as its name would seem to indicate, but also to the general scientific knowledge necessary for the other technical divisions, and which the pupils may acquire by following the particular courses relating...
第 304 頁 - Course of mathematics, geometry and mechanics applied to arts and trades. This course, which is public and gratuitous, was founded in 1828 under the auspices of M. Ch. Dupin. It is supported by the town ; 50 pupils on the average. Course of drawing, linear, graphic, and from the round, founded and maintained by the town ; 60 pupils. There is also a course of arboriculture and horticulture, with 30 pupils. VAR. — Farm-school of Salgues; 33 pupils.
第 110 頁 - Of all the practical schools in Germany that of Prague is certainly the one where linear drawing is best taught, and we are inclined to attribute this fact to the attention given from the very outset to the practice of freehand drawing, which early habituates the pupil to trace his lines with a light hand.
第 219 頁 - But the time required by the Polytechnic School, including the preparatory and complementary studies, is seven years, which is much too long for candidates who are anxious to begin practice as soon as possible. The difficulties of the examination for admission also exclude a large proportion of candidates : the consequence is that the number admitted every year is very limited. It shuts its doors against many hundreds of young men whose minds, though little disposed for mathematical abstractions,...
第 298 頁 - ... reading, writing, and arithmetic are, geography, geometry, (plane, solid, and descriptive), algebra, mechanics (with application to steam-engines), practical hydraulics, drawing, physics, chemistry. The same society has also opened classes for apprentices. Municipal professional course of mathematics and their applications ; 130 pupils. A naval school supported 'by the department, the city of Bordeaux, and the Chamber of Commerce. There are from 150 to 200 pupils, who are taught on board the...
第 97 頁 - ... hours ; drawing of machines, mechanics, study of machines, 4 hours ; modeling, and drawing from the round, 4 hours ; general chemistry, 1 hour ; study of raw materials, 1 hour ; commercial book-keeping, &c., 1 hour ; applied mechanics, 1 hour ; applied chemistry, 1 hour ; total, 21 hours per week. In the two elementary sections, the instruction is compulsory for all the courses. In the special sections, on the contrary, the choice of courses is left to the pupils. The school year commences on...
第 224 頁 - ... terms of the certificate he deserves. At first the council of the school, when definitively classing the pupils according to their merits, took into account only the marks obtained at the final competitive examination] at the end of the third year, when each pupil had to present a project on a given subject. But experience soon showed that a pupil who answered correctly the questions put at the examination was not unfrequently a very indifferent pupil favoured by a lucky chance.
第 303 頁 - There are on the average 250 to 300 pupils in the year ; the lessons are given three evenings per week, from 6 to 8 o'clock. Course of linear drawing, applied to various trades, for adults. Founded in 1849. Three lessons per week of two hours each. 200 pupils in the year. Course of horticulture and agriculture, founded in 185 8.
第 220 頁 - In the mining and metallurgical industries, in those of gas, spinning, dyeing, paper making, plate glass manufacture, in the agricultural arts, and, lastly, in all the mechanical and chemical industries, we find at the head of large establishments old pupils of the Central School, who have nearly all attached their names to important improvements in the processes they were charged to conduct. The above statement is fully proved by the following figures :— of the 2,051 pupils who obtained on leaving...

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