Board of Education to limit the number of admissions to the 
Training School each year, which practice has proved to be a 
very wise policy. 
If the status of our Training School were defined edu- 
cationally it would be to classify it as a school of Junior- 
College rank, due to the fact that the two years of profes- 
sional training are considered by colleges generally as 
equivalent to the completion of the first two vears of college 
work. 
A new building to house the Teachers’ Training School 
with its model group of elementary children, has been erected 
in the Schenley district, facing on Thackeray street just 
above Fifth avenue. This building is known as the Henry 
Clay Frick Training School for Teachers. 
When the will of the late Mr. Frick was opened it was 
found that he had bequeathed to the Frick Educational 
Commission of this city, the sum of $5,000,000 to be used 
in promoting the professional growth and improvement of 
the teachers employed in the Pittsburgh public schools. 
Since and before that bequest, Mr. Frick’s beneficence 
has made it possible for the Educational Commission to 
award free scholarships to more than three thousand teachers 
connected with the Pittsburgh Public Schools. On these 
free scholarships teachers have been able to attend summer 
vacation schools conducted by leading colleges and uni- 
versities. The commission has not only awarded scholar- 
ships to teachers, but it has paid either part or all of their 
expenses incurred while attending these summer schools. 
The commission has likewise brought from the fields of art 
and literature some of the most eminent and successful men 
and women in America to inspire the twenty thousand boys 
and girls enrolled in the high schools of the city. The com- 
mission has generously encouraged the routine professional 
work being carried on with the teachers throughout the 
school year by making an appropriation to pay for the ser- 
vices of outside school experts who may be brought to the 
city to assist in the development of such work. 
This gift of Henry Clay Frick is unique in the educational 
annals of America. No bequest has ever been made to 
an educational institution in this country that has ever ac-