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Iowa State College, Y.M.C.A. Building

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Stock #:326885
Type: Postcard
Era: Divided Back
City: Ames
State: Iowa (IA)
County: Story
Publisher: Hugh C. Leighton Co.
Postmark: 1912 Sep-14
Postmark City: Ames
Postmark State: IA
Stamp: 1c
Size: 3.5" x 5.5" (9 x 14 cm)

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AMES, IA is located on the through line of the North Western and is the seat of the Iowa State College of Mechanical Arts, one of the important institutions of learning in the west. Its success is due in a great degree to the ... of working in close touch with the practical needs of the people of Iowa. Extensive experiments are undertaken from time to time, the results of which are turned to the most practical use. One of the features of this work at Ames, is what is known as the "Short Course", a period of instruction extending over a few weeks in midwinter, with a special view to giving the farmer or the farmer's children, unable to secure a longer term, the benefit of instruction for the development of improved training methods

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