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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Washington, D.C. · May 4, 1905

C. H. HAYTON, principal of Union College, near Cape Town, South Africa, reports that the school has opened for another year's work very encouragingly. South Africa, however, is passing through a severe financial depression, which has affected the attendance at the school, but, all things considered, it is felt that the outlook for the year is good. The students are, on the whole, rather young. He says that the English people, generally speaking, send their children to boarding-schools at an early age, and take them away while yet young, and that the schools find it rather difficult to keep them until they are properly fitted for work.

AVONDALE School for Christian Workers, Australia, has an enrolment of nine more students for the first two months this year than for the same months of 1904. The principal, C. F. Irwin, says that every available room has two students, and a few rooms have three each, and more students are expected. In addition to the regular dormitories a six-room cottage, which will accommodate twelve young students, has been taken into use by the school. The food factory and the Avondale Press have been affiliated with the school. They have heretofore been run under separate management. It would appear that the Avondale school was taking good steps toward solving some of the problems of industrial education.

THE NEW YORK Conference Committee has been giving considerable consideration to the intermediate school question. The idea of starting two or three small schools in different portions of the State within easy access of some of the larger schools has been thought to be more practicable than to establish one large school. The plan is to have in these schools accommodations for twenty or thirty pupils, taught by one teacher, or, if the school should be a little larger, by two teachers at the most. These schools, being in the country, would give opportunity for agricultural work.