The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1901-10-02

his mOnOS1apl7sOli hoC1Stl1AtSSs =
and Engineering Education IN the United
States. prepared forsth recent Paris Ex-:
position, !. those. OF. "a hundred years ago
#or more, almost Wit thouts exceptton grew.
lsol1t of the industrial demands OF stheslocal-
ityz In (which theyswere founded One OF
stle best examplessis the famous School OF
Mines. at Freiberg, which has; enjoyed
long and i1Iustrious career, and many or
the earlier European schools sbelong5to the
same class. To these and thesmorez mod
ern schools Of science and TECHNOLOGY the
United States are greatly ptee,se
cially on account OF the generous Wei-.
come that has always been extended to.
American students and for The inspira ton
with which many of them have returned
| to take their part IN the wonderful educa-s
| fiona1 evolution which the last half cen
tury has witnessed.
4eBut In all .casessE european methods have
been adapted rather thai adopted,
| and while the nearly 100 schools cfsscaence
and engineering scattered over the y nlted
States have many points Of fsresemoiaRce,s
there is much viduality, particularly
among the strongest and best and it's pc.
lieyed that their several types represent
important advances jim the direction OF
scientific and technical education. =
This matter of scientific training for
yonth makes but a conservative, quiet
claim, though yet "a substantial one. He
| might have pointed to some OF the results
OF these 4ebelieveds TO be: important ad-
yances.,, American technical school grad:
uates have come TO besthes bridge builders
OF the world There are no steel makers,
no tool makers ia Europe equal to the:
cool keen young scientists IN IS American.
Eshans and unillsasIiyor has tie Continent
and England such: a race OF railway con-
struction engineers. Only this summer the
Massachusetts 81 Institute OF Technology
held examinat tionssfn Londonsfor the young:
|sErglishmen ofsscientihc tastes, VINO TO
learn what they wanted to- sft them LOT.
the scientific world. 4 found their only re-
course ansAmerican schoo And,s1n the
field, of medicine, foJrS disting gushed sphyst-
Clans and surgeons, of this country are
now touring the world at the request Of
foreign doctors who are anxious toslearn
accurately of. thesadYance o1sthis branch
OF the science in the New Yorld.
Out Of many significant instances these
have been picked: The number might be
greatly added to- with o:1lyethe advantage
OF emphasizing the point. Thatswh1ch has
the most pronounced is, however, the turn
ing Of the tide Thirty years ago, and even
welI Onto very recent years; the American
studentsof any kind of science foun0 1t a
part OF. his education TO goafo the sschools
| abroad for as long period as his pocket
book could stand HJss education was not
| thought complete TIL t hen And 1T was
NOT FOR scientific training in this country
was not. formed Now the student has no
need to GO. AS he takes his degree. he is
far beyond what the schools OF Europe
teach. And year following year, IN IN
creasing numbers, young Europeans are
coming over here to grasp the raining
| that our universities are giving and TO
absorb the technique and the thorough
lpracticalness that are. making American
scientists masters Of men.
adapted was the word Prof Menden-
hail used in speaking Of European meth.
DDS and the American universities, rather
! than adopted. y But; 1t has been very much
more than that Brushing traditions aside
these institutions Of learning Went long
ago to the root Of the matter. Year by
year they have been building up their:
equipment, strengthening their courses.
lzQuestions Of finance and whether 1t would
ali nav they have politely laughed at.
Money was needed for this and for that.
Wei, the chiefs would see that !. was OBJ
tafned. Machinery was necessary. AT
once the great manufacturers were laid
l.under contrib ution,a and they seuts as gifts
machines worth thousands.
The technical school presidents knew
how to arouse the sympathetic under
standing Of men Of means and fore
thought. Benefacters for this and for that
crowded in, their gifts were chronicled IN
the news Of the day, commented upon as
vast the figures added up and admired.
But no one saw the significance.
Year after year students came out OF
courses Of engineering, of medicine and
o1,o o3~fr~x TxNf-
marine engineering, of agriculture and
| forestry and went into wockaday life.
Hitherto the scientific college man had
not been held in very high regard. Manu-
| facturers had wanted men who had grown
up in shops, ..practical' they called them,
no .book learning fellows, who We're all
! theory and clean clothes and hands. But
even the most old fashioned soon came to
appreciate that these fellows, TOO, came
from shops" shops" in the colleges tnat
had a wider variety Of machinery In act
nal use than could ever be found in a
single factory They grew to see that the
new theory man was broader,=of more
| intelligence, willing to learn about case
Sin point and able to grasp it more quickly.
| They devised economies and Improvement
whenever theyzwere given chance. Iaey
could make one man do the work OF two.
The old time foreman was childsbefore
1 them.
Then. one after another. the far seeing
manufacturers chuckled. They had
bridged the gulf between capital and labor
and found real master workmen. They
gave these men more swing and power
and skeot on the lookout for more youths
from the technical schools. They came to.
see that the product from these inst1tu-
tions was getting better every year.
The. technical schools and universities
had won their point. They realized the.
growing demand for their men. They fe-
doubled their efforts, added to their
courses. consulted with the greatest and