It was further required that they must work for ten hours during the day at some trade or industry, and study academic branches for two hours during the evening.

This was the requirement for the first one or two years of their stay.

They were to be paid something above the cost of their board, with the understanding that all of their earnings, except a very small part, were to be reserved in the school's treasury, to be used for paying their board in the regular day-school after they had entered that department.

The night-school, started in this manner, has grown until there are at present four hundred and fifty-seven students enrolled in it alone.
There could hardly be a more severe test of a student's worth than this branch of the Institute's work.

It is largely because it furnishes such a good opportunity to test the backbone of a student that I place such high value upon our night-school.