Excerpt from Association Institute Bulletin, Polytechnic School, 1910-11, Vol. 2: Co-Operative Engineering Courses When a boy is graduated from a high school he has two roads from which to choose, one leads to a higher institution of learning, the other, which is taken by far the greater number, leads to business pursuits. But the boy entering business after a high school career, is at once confronted by the fact that, While his education has broadened his view and given him general culture, it has not fitted him for any specific position in any particular line, or occupation. Consequently, he must begin work at the bottom of the ladder, and it may be years before he mounts even a few of the rounds. After being at work for a time, the ambitious young man sees that if he is going to get ahead at all, he must know more of those subjects which bear directly upon his occupation. This necessity has brought to the Evening Schools of the Boston Young Men's Christian Association thousands of men who have devoted their time and energies to supplementing their previous education by systematic study in preparation for positions of responsibility. The phenomenal success of the Association Evening Schools made those in charge of the work feel that there was still more to be done for the men who were unable to get more than a high school education, but who could successfully fill a higher station in life than they held if they could only get the necessary training for it. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.