. Textile school catalog, 1916-1917 . , - . - , . , It was created, the fostermg of technicaleducation. At that time, no thorough school existed in thiscountry, and it was necessary to begin at the foundationof the work, without previous knowledge of the exactmethods to be adopted, or means to be employed to reachthe desired end. The initiative in this, as well as theMr. Searchs work abovc described, was taken by Mr. Initiative ^^ ^ r~i ■, i t-i • i r Theodore C. Search, who was President 01the Textile Association, as well as Vice-President and Chair-man of the Committee on Instruction of the
. Textile school catalog, 1916-1917 . , - . - , . , It was created, the fostermg of technicaleducation. At that time, no thorough school existed in thiscountry, and it was necessary to begin at the foundationof the work, without previous knowledge of the exactmethods to be adopted, or means to be employed to reachthe desired end. The initiative in this, as well as theMr. Searchs work abovc described, was taken by Mr. Initiative ^^ ^ r~i ■, i t-i • i r Theodore C. Search, who was President 01the Textile Association, as well as Vice-President and Chair-man of the Committee on Instruction of the PennsylvaniaMuseum and School of Industrial Art. Indeed, he assumedat first the entire financial responsibility of organizing andequipping the Textile School, and to his devoted and untiringservice in its behalf, from its first inception to its presenthigh state of development, more than to all other agenciescombined, its success is due. That the Association took theaction that it did was mainly due to the example and leader- 19. ship of Mr. Search and a few members who were, like him, fully alive to the importance of the movement, notably, Mr. Thomas Dolan, Messrs. John and Support of James Dobson, Mr. Wm. Wood, Mr. Wm. inanufacturers Arrott, Mr. John Yewdall, Messrs. Fiss,Banes, Erben & Co., Messrs. Conyers Button & Co., and James Bromley, Mr. Seville Schofield, Crow & Son, Messrs. James Smith & Co., A. Furbush & Son, Messrs. John Bromley & Sons, L. Leedom, Messrs. James Doak, Jr., & Co., Spencer & Co., Messrs. H. Becker & Co., Hartel, Mr. S. B. M. Fleisher, Messrs. GrundyBros. & Campion, Messrs. H. W. Butterworth & Sons, andMessrs. Stead & Miller. The School aims to make the instruc- Instruction . , ., , . , , . tion as practical as possible without losingsight of the fundamental principles which it is the mainbusiness of all education to impart. The instruction consistsof lectures
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