Proposed Plan for a School of Trades

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Excerpt from Proposed Plan for a School of Trades: For the City of Rio De Janeiro, BrazilInstitute, Boston, Mass, and Albert J. Jameson, Principal of Worcester Boys' Trade School, Worcester, Mass.The first difficulty that confronted the writer of this report was the fact that he was called upon to plan a school for a city he had not seen, in a country he had never visited, to suit industrial needs quite unknown to him, and to fit the customs and tastes of a people with whom he had never mingled. His first effort, therefore, was to meet people who had lived in Brazil, to read books and reports, especially the reports of the U. S. Department of Commerce, and magazine articles. From these sources he gained certain impressions and facts which are stated in the following pages because they provide a reason for many of the recommendations.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.