None should be excluded for lack of the knowledge presupposed in students ready for high school, and the general courses were to be made flexible so that those who entered deficient might be brought to a fixed standard.

The vocational branches were the most difficult, and at Sylvia's suggestion several well-known authorities on technical education were called into conference.

One of these had visited Waupegan and expressed his enthusiastic approval of Mrs.Owen's plans.

She was anxious to avoid paralleling any similar work, public or private.

What the city schools did in manual training was well enough, and she did not mean to compete with the state's technical school, or with its reformatory school for erring girls.