PRATT INSTITUTE, a polytechnic school in Brooklyn, N. Y., established in 1887 by Charles Pratt (q.v.). Its aim is to promote manual and industrial education as well as cultivation in literature, science and art. Its organization includes the following depart ments: (1) School of Fine and Applied Arts; (2) School of Science and Technology; (3) School of Household Science and Arts; (4) School of Library Science; (5) Department of Education; (6) Department of Physical Edu cation. The regular courses of the institute vary in length; mostly they cover two or three years; the general course in domestic science is only one year, and the general art course four years. Normal courses are given in the schools of Fine and Applied Arts and of House hold Science and Arts, evening classes in these two schools as well as in the School of Science and Technology. The library is open for the free use of the public, has a large children's room, and in equipment and management is considered a model library. It contained 114,775 volumes in 1918. The library school
offers a one-year general course and provides practice work for students in the library (See LIBRARY Sumo's). The institute confers no degrees, but grants diplomas for the completion of any of the normal courses, and gives cer tificates attesting the completion of the full time day courses. It occupies 12 large buildings, the main building, the science and technology building, the electrical building, the chemistry building, the machinery building, the house hold arts building, the practice house, the men's club house, the women's club house, the rest home, the library and the gym nasium. The endowment is large and the tuition fees are small. The productive funds consist of the original endowment made by the founder, to which large sums have been added at various times by members of the Pratt family. The students in 1918 numbered 3,799, including all those in the special and evening, as well as the regular courses. The faculty consisted of 195 members.