Arizona daily citizen., 1901-07-03
THE ADVANTAGES OF EDUCATION.

Recently President Schwab, ofthe United States
Steel Corporation, advised young men contemplating
Ii business not to waste their time and ener-
gies i'll college studies Schwab did not have the ad-
vantagcs of collegiate training and yet he has risen
from the position of man working like thousands of
others at mechanical trade to the presidency of the
greatest corporation ever organized. 'My own ca
reer he seemed to say lis convincing proof of the
soundness of my advice" While Mr.. Schwab was
thus minimizing the value aud Importance ofa college
education for business purposes that shrewd and
practical business man Mr., Andrew Carnegie was
preparing to give $lOUOo0OO to the Scottish uni
versties in order that every boy in Scotland might
enjoy the advantages of a liberal education. Mr..
Carnegie like Mr.. Schwab, had to begin work when
Cd mere lad before he had acquired even an elemen-
tary education, His generous gift to Scotch univer
stiles attests the importance which ho attaches to
college training Hes not opposed to the Draw lads
of the Lard o Cakes butting their heads agin the
college walls of Edinbro.
While the president of the United States Steel
Corporation belittes the value of liberal education
to young who intend to engage in business, Mr..
j. P, Morgan, the organizer of that corporation,
tributes $5OOOOO to the endowment of an institution
for technical training in New York and gives 81 0OO-
0UO to Harvard University. Furthermore other in
dustrial corporations, New York papers state,
anxious to engage the service of technically trained
scientists and engineers, and their demand exceeds
the supply of available The graduation exer-
cses of we'll known institute of technology near
New York were held one day last week Out OF forty
young men entitled to diplomas only twelve were
present to receive them The other twenty had
been engaged by industrial corporations which need
men of scientific knowledge and technical training
and were compelled to go to their employment be-
fore the commencement exercises of the institute
were held. few weeks ago, a New York correspon-
dent writes the head of of the chief corporations
of that city made a tour of the technical institutes
going far Montreal, in order to obtain young
men equipped for positions in the scientific and en-
gineering departments of this corporation Reports
received from institutes of technology and the scien-
tihc departments of universities indicate widespread
demand for with practical and technical know
ledge of engineering, civil and electric, and applied
chemistry. Many students at these institutions, it
is stated assured of places with rapid promotion
even before they are graduated
Such facts as these destroy the force of Presi-
dent Schwabs argument against college training for
youths who expect to engage il. commercial or in
dustrial pursuits. In the United States today the
young who is thoroughly equipped with such
knowledge as he may acquire at Institutes of tech
noogy and in the scientific departments of our uni
versitics has a much better chance to advance him
self in his business calling than the who does
not possess this equipment At the recent com
mencement exercises of Columbia University, New
York, the opinion expressed by men who ought
to know that the extraordinary advance made by the
United States toward industrial supremacy is due il
large measure to tho services of technically trained
scientists and engineers. President Schwabs state
ments do not stand the test of examination. His
theory may possibly have been sound at some time in
the past 1t is wholly out of date in the light
OF changed conditions and scientific industriasm.
The solid Repuhlican administrative Boards an-