The daily Republican., 1902-12-03
STUDENTS HAVE
u NEW SOCIETY.
Purpose Of Delaware College
Boys to Study Engineer
ing Practices.

| The students of Delaware College
have formed an Engineering Society
the object of which is to aid ant
encourage its m }mbers in the study
of engineering practice, in origina
research, and in the cultivation oi
their powers of thought and ex.
preston.
Papers will be presen ted and dis,
! cussed by members at their regular
monthly meeting, and leading
technical journals will also be sub
mitted, By the latter, the mem :
bers will be kept in"close touch
with the latest practice, and
consequently many points Of in
terest and value will be observed.
Besides this, the College has az
ranged 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 it's members, will appear
in the annual Proceedings" of the
Society, to be published at the close
of each season.
Membership in the society in
cludes all students in the senior
and junior classes in the civil, me-
chanical and electrical engineering
courses. At present the students in
these courses constitute 81 per cent
of the total college enrolment.
Their proportion relative to the en-
tire student body, having increased
steadily during the past few years.
This is not the case at Delaware
College alone. but proportional
increase in technical students is
noted in all colleges throughout the
country, wherever engineering
courses are offered. The primary
cause for this seems to lie in the
fact that technical courses supply
just THAT useful, practical knowl-
edge so much demanded by the
commercial and industrial worlds
at present.
Commercial and industrial pur-
suits are no longer looked upon as
inferior spheres of activity to the
so-called learned professions for 1t
is now realized that the former may
engage all the higher intellectual
faculties and develop all sides Of the
character as well as the latter. And
the education which fits a young
man to follow these pursuits. is
therefore the more valuable 10 that
it enaO.-, its possessor to realize 4
his faculties in acts which make, |,
for the increased power and strength
the nation at large. In fact the
prospect Of American industrial
supremacy is causing no small
amount Of anxiety IN our English
and in their eff0Ets TO
account for it, they have ffetty
generally concluded that it is the
:esult Eof our system of technical
education. AS the saturday Re.
view.' London, recently put it,
1.-THE American ideal is to make
America the leader in all the depart
nents Of practical life, aud educa-
ion of the young lAmerican Is to be
directed manly to that end.
"To do things. to be observant
Ind quick of eye, to be Ingenious
n contrivance, to be clever in ma
all kinds OF material
rom early years in order that
chool lite may be graded pro.
:ess leading up to the actual busi-
less OF life, is the systsm which
American elucationists are most
ntent on establishing for the bud
ling of American intellect. There
re advocates OF the old classical
|rill, but they are a diminishing
quantity; and the Universities are
making wide their gates to admit
he new classes Of people. y
And Delaware College is striving
o do for the youth OF our State,
What the other colleges and technical
choo,s are doing for the young men
I other states, and the country at
arge. If the much needed improve
lents in work shops and laOorator-
aS, which the instituLion is strug-
ling hard 10 Secure, Can be obtain
d, Delaware College will uc well
bic TO keep abreast with its more
ggressive adverSarieS in the matter
t technical education. And thus it
opes to offer to the youth OF our
tate privileges and facilities well
ualiiicd to make them, 'the finest
0mmerCial instrumentSnth in the world.