Milford chronicle., 1903-01-09
Students of Delaware College
Form an Engineering Society.

Form an Engineering Society.
4 The students of Delaware Col
/ lege have formed an Engineering
2 Society, the object of which is t,
+ aid and encourage its members il
l the study of engineering practice
in original research and in the cul
: tivation of their powers of though
and expression.
Papers will be presented and dis
cussed by members at their regu
lar monthly meeting, and leading
technical journals will also be sub
mitted. By the latter, members
will be kept in close touch with the
latest practice, and consequently
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 aus
pices of the Society. These lee
lures together with the more i'm
portant of the papers of its mem
bers, will appear in the Annual
Proceedings of the Society, to be
published at the close of each sea-
son.
Membership in the Society in.
cludes all students in the Senior
and Junior classes in the Civil, Me
chanical and Electrical Engineer
ing courses. At present the stu
dents in these courses constitute 81
per cent. of the total college enroll
ment. Their proportion relative
to the entire student body, having
increased steadily during the past
few years. This is not the case at
Delaware College alone, but a pro-
portional increase in technical stu
dents 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
knowledge so much demanded by
the commercial and industrial
worlds at present. Commercial
aAd industrial pursuits are no lon
ger looked upon as inferior spheres
Of activity to the so-called learned
professions. For it is now realized
that the former may engage all the
higher intellectual faculties and
develop all sides of the character as
we'll as the latter. And the educa-
ton which fits a voting man to fol-
low these pursuits, is therefore the
more valuable in that it enables its ]
oOssessor to realize his faculties in !
acts which make, for the increased |
bower and strength, the nation at s
arge. In fact the prospect of
American industrial supremacy is t
,ausing no small amount of anx- t
ETY. in our English cousins, and in
heir efforts to account for it, they a
lave pretty generally concluded S
hat it is the result of our system of
echnical education. AS the Sat +
nday Review" London, recently q
,ut it "The American ideal is to G
make America the leader in all the h
departments of practical life, and il
he educatian of the young Ameri- r
an is to be directed mainly to that s
nd. To do things,tO be obser- L
ant and quick of eye, to be iugen- c
Gus in cOntrivance, to be clever in a
manipulating all kinds of material S
rom early years in order that Il
chool life may be graded process c
eading up to the actual business h
i life, IS the system which Ameri. Il
an educationists are most intent il
n establishing for the budding o
American intellect. There are ad- g
COATES of the old classical drill, b
ut they are diminishing quantity; Il
nd the Universities are making
vide their gates to admit the new il
lasses of pupils" 7
And Delaware College is striv- g
1g to do tor the youth of our State Il
What the other colleges and techri-
al schools are doing for the young
len of other States, and the coun-
ry at large, If the much needed
improvements in workshops ard NJ
laboratories, which the institution e
; struggling hard to secure, can be.
btained, Delaware College will 5elor
7ell able to keep abreast with itsnd
lore aggressive adversaries in th5ol
latter oftechnical education. Anfftel
nus it hopes to offer to the yout M
our State privileges and facilit8terir
ell qualified to make them, I'll M
nest commercial instruments who
lie world" tion
has