TECHNICAL COLLEGE

Press, Volume LIII, Issue 15931, 19 June 1917, Page 8

TECHNICAL COLLEGE

VISITED BY MINISTERS' ASSOCU TION.

The Ministers' Association made a new departure yesterday afternoon when they paid a visit to the Technical College in Barbadoes street. About, twenty members wcro present, and wcro received at the Collego by Mr J. H. Howell, tho director and Mr Geo. Scott, chairman of the Board of Governors. Mr Howell, after addressing a few words to the visitors on tho scope of the work, committed them to Mr Scott and Mr N. Goldsbury, tho registrar, to bo conducted over the institution.

An hour was spent in pawing ! throngli tho various departments, and groat interest was exhibited by tlio ministers in tho work soon and th« methods of instniction • given. The majority of tho visitors having spent thoir early days in some field of industry, felt that the present generation ■were living in a golden age. Tn tho kitchen Miss Beck was ready with afternoon tea, after which tlio Rev. W. J. Williams, president of tlio Association, expressed tho gQititudo of the members to Miss Beck for her hospitality, and to air Scott and Mr Goldsbury for escorting them over tho bnilding and answering their numerous questions. ' • jp A return -was then mndo to tlio Director's room, when Mr Howell delivered an illuminating and instructive address on "The Scopo nnd Aim of Technical Education." He outlined tho work done in tho Technical. High School, the Hostel and evening classes showing tho special importance of each department. Tho speaker also interested tho visitors by his account of moral training which tho pupils receivo in both class and playground. In regard to tho evening school, Mr Howeil Kointed out that in order to get tho est results it -was necessary to havo a regular system of adolescent education during tho day time. A democracy was dependent on tho education of tho individual, and every effort should bo put forth to make it efficient.

_A voto of thanks to Mr Howell for his reception and address was moved •by the Revs. H. Johnson and C. E. Ward, who said that, in addition to tho interest in the institution and tho understanding of its -work gained by the visit, they would in the futuro havo an enlarged senso of tho responsibility of tho community to tho institution. The Rev. W. J.. Williams, in supporting tho motion, urged tno establishment, of a technological museum as an adjunct to tho College.