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 educationally
 it would be to classify it as a school of Junior-College
 rank, due to the fact that the two years of professional
 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 universities.
 The commission has not only awarded scholarships
 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 commission
 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 services
 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-