The advantage of being able to attend a night school is that one has the help of a teacher, a great boon to men taking up the different studies connected with engineering. In some "practical" schools the instruction is individual and the schools are open all the year. They exist to supply a demand for education from men who wish to quickly increase their earning ability and many of them labor under the disadvantage that the teachers do not guide the students in a course of study. The students dictate to the teachers as to what they want and if the teacher thinks differently some other school gets them. A few of these schools are excellent, but the majority are run solely to make money and for the good of the profession should be suppressed.
Many high-class institutions now have evening courses, but as the income of the school is not dependent upon the money received from the students, the cost generally being far higher than the amount charged for tuition, each student is expected to enter a class and receive class instruction. The courses extend over practically as many months as the courses in the day school, but this in years means more than double, for the evening classes continue for only about six montlls in each year and for two or three evenings in each week. Night-class students generally want something in a hurry and the course that only occupies their time for half the year, and is arranged to cover
