Evening journal., 1902-12-02
STUDENTS FORM
A NEW SOCIETY
Delaware College Boys Or
ganize Association to Study
Engineering Practices
SERIES OF LECTURES ARRANGED

The students of Delaware College
have formed an Engineering Society.
the object Of which is to aid and en-
courage its members in the study OF
engineering practice. in original re-
search. and in the cultivation OF their
powers Of thought and expression.
Papers will be presented and discuss
cd by members at their regular month
ly meeting, and leading technical jour
mails will also be submitted. BY the
latter, members will be kept in close
touch with the latest practice. and CON
sequently many points of interest and
value will be observed. Besides this.
the college has arranged for a series OF
lectures by prominent engineers. which
Will be given under the auspices of the
society. These lectures, together with
the more important of the papers OF
its membership appear in the Annual
Proceeding" Of the society, TO be pub
lished at the close OF each season.
Those in Society
Membership in the society includes
Jail students in the senior and junior
classes In the civil, mechanical and
electrical engineering courses. AT pres
ent the students in these courses con-
sttute fifty-seven per cent. of the total
lcollege enrolment. Their proportion
relative TO the entire student body hav-
[, ing increased steadily during the past
J few years. This is not the case at Del
aware College alone, but a proportional
increase in technical students is noted
in all colleges throughout the country
wherever engineering courses are Of
. fered. The primary cause for this
seems to lie in the fact that technical
courses supply just that useful, practi-
cal knowledge so much demanded by
the commercial and industrial worlds al
present. Commercial and industrial
pursuits are no longer looked upon as
inferior spheres Of activity in the so
called learned profession. For Il Ii
now realized that the former may en-.
gage all the higher intellectual facul.
ties and develop all sides of the char
acter as well as the latter. And ths
education which fits a young man tC
follow thege pursuits, is therefore Tho
more valuable in that It enables itl
lpOssessor TO realize his faculties In
acts which make. for the increased
power and strength, the Nation a
large. In fact the prospect of Ameri
can industrial supremacy Is causing nj
lsmall amount Of anxiety in our Eng
lish cousins. ana In their efforts to ac
count for Il. they have pretty general,
concluded that il is the result of ON
System of technical education. AS thi
Saturday Review, London, recently pu
it, The American ideal is to makl
America the leader in all the depart
ments of practical life. and the educa
ton of the young American is to b.
ldiected mainly to that end To d'
things, to be observant and quick o
eye. to be ingenious in contrivance, q
he clever in manipulating all kinds o
material from early years in order tha
school life may be a graded process
leading up to the actual business o
life, Is the system which American edu
caticmists are most intent on establish
r ing for the budding American intel
: lect. There are advocates OF the oil
classical drill but they are a diminish
u ing quantity; and the universities ar
making wide their gates TO admit Oh
: new classes OF pupils"
Striving to Help Youth
And Delaware College is striving {
v do for the wOuth of cur State. wha
f; the other other colleges and technics
schools are doing for the young men {
?, lother States. and the country at lang
}. If the much needed improvements
workshops and Laboratories. which II
institution is struggling hard to secur
can be obtained, Delaware College wi
], be we'll able to keep abreast with II
IS more aggressive adversaries in tn
e natter Of teci nic2l education. An
thus il hopes 10 offer TO the youth {
our Stale privileges and facilities we
N qualified to make them. the fines
a commercial Instruments IN the world.