New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1878-12-07
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SUMNER CLASSES OF THE COLUMBIA COLLEGE
SCHOOL OF MINES.

SUMMER CLASSES OF THE COLUMBIA COLLEGE
SCHOOL OF MINES.
ANY evening in June or July last, a travel
Ter stopping the quiet Of Port Henry.
on Lake Champaign, would have been surprised per-
haps to find the hotel full to overlooking, and college
students everywhere, and college Jokes and college
songs filling the air II visit should have been, per-
chance the day after the Henley a doubtless the
peculiar and orepeated cheer, Columbia! Of the
enthusiastic students would have told him whence they
came He might have been further surprised to find
that these not at Port Henry for bOat-race
nor for ball match learn that they did not spend
their IN stealing sigus and Destroying property
and to be told that they there vacation for work
and engaged In the study Of practical mining with
skilled miners for their Instructors, and sledge-ham-
mers aud drills as textbooks!
Every morning twenty-four students, picturesquely
attired in flannel shirts and old clothes with here and
there the peculiar vandyke brown overall in
the laboratories Of the Scnon Of Mines might be seen
making their way the railroad station. In special
car at the end long train Of empty they
taken TO Mnevle the iron mines of their hosts,
Messrs WitheTbees Sherman Co. Here they met by
the young professor charge Of the summerschoO and
assigned In squads Of two aud rees to their days work
Some go underground TO work with the miners In drilling
and blasting ore Some go the repair shops to work
with the machDlsts, dissectng machine rock drills.
mine pumps air cOmpressors etc. Some, with engineers
transts and steel tapes spend the day In underground
surveying. Others with variation compass and dipping
needles prospect the surface for indications OF iron
At o'clock twentyfOur tired students. begrmed with
their days work. take the for Port Henry, where
plunge IN the lake and good dinner restore them TO
their normal condition. and college songs and college
| cheers once moro MI the air.
This Summer School Of Practical Mining was added
10 the course Of School OF Mines at suggestion
and request OF some OF the older graduates who had
felt in their studies the need Of some such practical Illus
| ~ IN uvbO hanf
perence gained since they lett the school had como TOO
late to enable them to derive fun benefit from their
theoretical education. Subjects only half understood
while the school, and wholly forgotten since had 10
be studied again. and without the aid Of instructors
and professors TO st arrange and cOndense for them
the too abundant material Of the technical Journals and
monographs. The first session Of The Summer scnOol
held last year at the celebrated eoefes OF Coke
Brothers Co.. at Drfton. in the Lehigh anhraclte re-
gion. To the cooperation OF Mr. Eckey b. Coxe pres-
Columbia College indebted for much Of the success Of
this feature IN the education OF young mining en-
During the same six weeks Of last Summer new eI-
pertinent In engineering education was Tried by the En-
giQeering Department Of Columbia College, similar
basis The instruction within the school itself cannot
give the practical illustrations on large scale which
apply them successfully in his early practice young
engineer ~ always danger proposing design
which can not be cast or finished cheapy, because Of
The experiment Of last Summer was designed 10
ting students Tor their graduate work engineers.
A
wear OF study at the school put three the
machine-suops in the city and told TO their eyes
They were accompanied by tho instructor III mechanical
eng CeTing of the school OF Mines, Mr.. 4. r. Hutton
who guided their study add told them what to look for
They 10 note the arrangement OF the works and
pOsitiOns of tools and machines, the lighting, the
Tapgemcnts for handling heavy work, the boilers and
chmnrys the driving engines and triDsmiSsYe nachin
ery Then they mad stldy OF the iOundrcs for bF
AMI and noted all processes and mixtures, apparatus
ana machinery. lucy studied UuttcTns and pattern
max ng cOring, sweeps, etc Wrought iron IN n
taken up, aud The MACHINERY OF the fOrg
fb. hlunks tup or
sHOp 10 81 exhnu,ty"ly studied. From these they
ed TO machine tuOs in the mach nehOp aud
Ied tue meCbaniSns for shaping the forged metal.
They shown what were the llni atlOus design
OF usual tools, and attention ciiled 90 posi-
bic economies ~ tiitiug and ishiUg Ia word, they
followed every process from bcguurg End, with the
WIthln call to explain doubtful pOiuts and %
dire by an "Outne" put into the hands Of each
student and many prot able chats with q boss
workman would result from students question
on some pOiat there lndca ed worthy OF notice.
and took pleasure answeriu- their intelligent durs
lions. Tue works at which the class kindly per
united by the prop trtOrE TO prosecute their stndes
those of Messrs. Roach Son, MCssrb c. II. Della
ma er & Co., aud Messrs n. Z. Palmer 4 Qu'ntard
known respu ctVry as the Morgan the Delamater and
the Q4ntard Iron Works the students attended
every day at the appointed shop from o
till 4 in their bfue Overaiis, and took care
fui notes OF information gathered, and made
free-hand sketches Of the machinery. These
notes and sketches, worked up during the latter
part Of ID Summer, have been handed TO the school
tAe form OF memOirs which great deaf OF yalu-
able Information gathered, experience obtained and
training Of that engineering instinct" with
wleh any pract sing the profession often led
iniO avodabe error. In hno, the summer class in Mo
chanica Engineering may be pronounced SUCCESS and
School Of Mines has the honor OF establishing