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the greater part of their expenses in cash. Students attending the Day-School are required to work one day in each week and every other Saturday. They must also be fourteen years of age, of good physique, and able to pass the examination for the C Preparatory class, as stated above. _The Night-School._--The requirements for entering the Night-School are the same as for entering the Day-School, with the additional requisites: Applicants must be fully sixteen years of age instead of fourteen, and physically able to perform an adult's labor. Cripples are under no circumstances admitted to this department. The Night-School is designed for young men and women who earnestly desire to educate themselves, but who are too poor to pay even the small charge made in the Day-School. Students will not be admitted to the Night-School who are known to be able to enter the Day-School; and when a student has fraudulently gained admission, upon discovery of the deception, must either enter the Day-School or leave the institution. Trades are assigned as nearly as possible in accordance with the students' desires. In assigning young men and women to a trade, their mental ability and intelligence to grasp it, and physical ability to perform the duties required, are all carefully considered. At the beginning of the school year it often happens that certain of the industries are quickly filled; and when this happens, applicants for this particular industry are assigned to some other division until a vacancy occurs. The school authorities also sent me a card notifying me as to the school's requirements in the way of discipline. These seemed to me to be rather overexacting, but I resolved to try to live up to them if I should be admitted. Among these were the following: The rules governing the school are aimed to be those which best promote the welfare and happiness of all. Each student is required to have a Bible. Regular habits of rest and recreation are required. No student is allowed to leave the grounds without permission. Male students when permitted to leave the grounds must wear the regulation cap. No young woman is permitted to leave the grounds of the institution unless accompanied by a teacher. The Institute has adequate facilities for bathing, and all students a
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