the socialists owned $3,400 worth of the shares in the Institute and the church groups, to whom the loss of the Institute was a serious blow, only $800 worth.

The Institute continued to expand along socialist lines. In the school year 1910-11 there were 112 students, 15 of them women. The age of the students ranged from 16 to 44, with the average being 27. At this time, there was a faculty of four, with Leo Laukki as director. In looking at the curriculum of that epoch, the Finnish language was given 6 periods a week (2 of them for composition work), English 9, with German introduced in 1911 with 1 period per week. Next in importance were economics and history, with the former given 5 periods a week and the. latter 9, augmented by 3 additional periods of the history of socialism and 2 more for the history of American socialism. In the third group of subjects, mathematics was given 4 or 5 periods a week; accounting, 3. In addition to this, there were 3 periods per week for general cultural background and another 3 for public speaking.

By and large, the students planned the program themselves and were free to choose their own courses. The only requirement was that at least one `informational' course had to be attended. These courses were on three different levels, and the student could choose his own level; if the lowest level seemed too easy he could switch to a higher, or vice versa. Student life was active, with the Union, to which all resident students belonged, meeting once a week and in charge of student administration. It took up all student conflicts and disciplinary problems, and although its decisions could be appealed to the school's board of directors, not much use was made of this right.

Relations with the outside were and remained close, with extension courses and courses for `outsiders'. Gust Aakula has summed up this work as follows : "The 1912 meeting of delegates decided to include correspondence courses as a part of the. Institute's activities, with courses in Finnish and English language, plus arithmetic. The establishment of summer courses was also considered, but the plan was given up due to the small number of prospective students, and local chapters were instead encouraged to arrange Sunday and summer courses for their own children. To help this plan, the Industrialisti newspaper included an Englishlanguage `Youth Section'. The first summer course at the Institute itself was not held until 1929, and at that time the local chapters paid for the participation of their own students, either by paying the course fee of $12 or by procuring scholarships it

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