Polytechnics Sentence Examples

The establishment of polytechnics was provided for by the City of London Parochial Charities Act 1883; the charities being administered by trustees.

The County Council also aids numerous separate schools of art, both general and special, such as the Royal School of Art Needlework and the School of Art Woodcarving; the City and Guilds Institute maintains similar establishments at some of its colleges, and art schools are also generally attached to the polytechnics.

The multiplication of art periodicals, lectures, books, photographs, meetings of societies and gilds, museums, schools of arts and crafts, polytechnics, scholarships, facilities for travel, exhibitions, even those of the Royal Academy, to which objects of applied art are now admitted, not only encourages many persons to become workers and designers in the applied arts, but exposes everything to the plagiarist, who travesties the freshest idea before it has well left the hands of its originator.

In contrast, just 22% of language undergraduates were studying at the former polytechnics.

People know Hull is one of the " red brick " universities, not one of the new converted polytechnics.

There are four polytechnics enjoying university rank at Prague and Brno, two of them being Czech and two German.

The general scope of the polytechnics is to give instruction both in general knowledge and special crafts or trades by means of classes, lectures and laboratories, instructive entertainments and exhibitions, and facilities for bodily and mental exercise (gymnasia, libraries, &c.).