Word: foremen
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...much better, he said, to have substantial instruction of a high grade given by a few of the most eminent and stimulating teachers than to have superficial or merely entertaining courses of a popular nature. As illustrations of the better policy he cited the school for industrial foremen conducted jointly by the Lowell Institute and the Institute of Technology, and the collegiate courses now being given by the co-operation of the Lowell Institute and Harvard University...
...direct that the professors supported from this endowment be provided with suitable assistance in their several departments, by the appoinment of instructors of lower grades, and of draughtsmen, foremen, mechanics, clerks or assistants, as occasion may require, my desire being that the professors be free to devote themselves to whatever part of the teaching requires the greatest skill and largest experience, and to the advancement of their several subjects...