New Iberia enterprise. (New Iberia, La.) 1885-1902, 1900-12-01
EDUCATIONAL.
TULANE MEN IN THE INDUSTRIAL
SERVICE"

The second lecture in the weekly
series inaugurated by President
Alderman, of Tulane University
was delivered by Prof Brown Ayres,
vicechairman Of the Faculty, Pro
fessOr Ayres' subject was "Tulane
Men in the Industrial Service"
Prof. Ayres, in beginning his
lecture, said that he took it that his
talk was to be not biographical
sketch of Tulane graduates, but
rather an account of what they had
done in the industrial life of the
South, the industrial life to be as
well as that past and present. The
work accomplished by the Tulane
College of Technology has been ac-
complished in the face of many adj
verse conditions, social, economical,
and physical, and its work and the
work of its graduates should be
judged, with this fact taken into
consideration. The New South is
just awakening in regard to engi-
neering and just coming to see that
gentlemen can be engineers.
Modern civilization, whether
manifested in war or in peace, is
based upon science and its applica
ton. As DR.. Currie said, when
here short time ago. "The South
isn't in it," and it is because it is
poor. The South should be made
rich, not by developm't through for
eign capital, which would take away
all that it made, but by its own
men. The South needs trained
men who will believe in it, as DR..
Alderman said, and who will not
hesitate to do what is necessary.
1t needs engineers and the college
is the place where the engineers
must be trained, for geniuses are
rare. Southern men should go to
institutions for this train
ing. If they 60 North for it, they
are likely to stay there and the
South which needs them, will lose
them.
Among Southern institutions pro-
viding courses in engineering, said
Prof. Ayres, Tulane and Tulane's
college of technology Of course, in
his hearers chiefly, and
he wanted, therefore, to give them
an idea of how the college was
looked upon away from home. He
said that he was connected with
many scientific bodies, and had
met and mingled with many promi-
nent scientists, and among them
all the Tulane College of Technolo-
yy was highly thought of. From
a monograph on education = the
United States, prepared for the Paris
Exposition by Prof. Mendenhall,
Prof. Ayres read complimentary
extract in regard to the engineering
work at Tulane. The speaker said
hat a college of technology, COM
prises five parts the equipment,
The faculty, the course of study,
The number of students, the stand
ard of work. Inall these particulars,
said he, Tulane is the equal Of any
Southern college. The equipment
specially is good, and the stand
ard is high, while the course of
study are the best in existence.
Leaving the South aside, Prof.
Ayres told how the work done at
Tulane was recognized and ap-
preciated by Northern institutions
also, as has been shown by the sue
cess of Tulane men who have gone
North to complete their studies. A
of instances were cited,
which 60 to show that Tulane
graduates have met with success
away from home. Even in COM
parison with great institutions
abroad. Tulane stands we'll though
young and without extensive equip
ment.
DR.. Ayres brought forward some
interesting statistics in reply to the
question, "what has Tulane done
For the South and New Orleans,
and what can it do for themi"
Eighty men have been graduated
from the Tulane college of techno-
logy, and every man has done well.
These graduates are working along
many varied lines and have met re-
cognition and promotion along all
Of them. Again individual instances
were cited to prove the truth of
this statement. Here in New Or
leans, the drainage and electric
lighting of Tulane graduates.
its sugar engineering
course too, said Prof. Ayref, Tu-
lane can accomplish much for
Louisiana. What the University
needs, said he FINALLY, is for the
students and alumni to believe in
It and make others believe in it.
HOsC to Cure Group.
Mr.. X. Gray, who lives near Armenia,
Duchess county, N. Y, says: "Cham-