New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-01-10

Principally because of the increasing demand
for men OF all around ability. who can do
more than thing and still do all well. Lehigh
University has recently added to its curriculum TWO
new courses each of which is calculated to meet
the demand daily repeated by heads of great indus
tries all over country for OF broader train
ing. men with understanding Of the entire Work
in hand and the executive ability to carry IL for-
ward whole.
One OF these new courses that Of electro-metal-
lurgy, is peculiar t. Lehigh No other institution
has similar course. In it young men are trained
in the fundamental principles Of chemistry OF met
allurgy and of electrical engineering, the electrical
training being such to demonstrate the value
of electricity in all forms of metallurgical WORK.
In the chemical engineering course the student
Is trained in both chemistry and engineering ana
the claim is made at Lehigh that when student
graduates from this course he will be especially
fitted for executive work in certain proirlhe4t M
dustries where such combination OF instruction
as he has received will prove of rare value
No students have. of course. yet been graduated
In either of these courses and the practical results
of their instruction are being awaited with much
interest by educators in general lhere Is aso
much interest being manifested as to just whdt SUI
of reception will be accorded to the chemical engl-
peer and the electro metaurgist performing the
work of two men, when he finally goes out from
the university halls mngle in the business word
with other fellow chemists. engineers electricians
and metalurgists
fessor Joseph w Richards, the father of the new
course said recently:
Whatever reception is accorded graduates IN
this course by their fellow laborers In electricity
and metallurgy l know that they will be most
gladly welcomed by business men at the head OF
many industries There has been of late years an
sver Increasing demand for men with just the Train
ing these young men receiving.
Graduates in this course will be especially well
fitted to fill places of great responsibility IN the
manufacture of aluminium, sodium. calcium carbide
graphite caustic soda. bleaching powder and potas-
SUM chlorate
THE graduate from this course is also especially
well fitted TO engage in the electro refining OF cop
per- Fully 90 per cent OF all the copper used Is
now refined by electricity. We refine 50 per cent
and there is an annual output amounting 10 s'U-
600 900 in this country alone.
These young men may also successfully engage
In the eectro-rening of lead. zinc. silver and sod
They can go into any line OF chemical industry. the
manufacture of suphurc acid, white lead salts. the
ma king of paints of iron. steel, copper lead and
zinc They may successfully engage IN electrical
Industries They are especially we'll fitted for stor-
age battery work and have all the fundamentals
of electrical engineering.
The field of electricity applied TO metaIurgy IS
Just now advancing faster than any other heId OF
applied science, and these men will be IN poSlt!oh
at graduation to step into the front ranks Ihey
will be among the most valuable educated men the
Industries can get hold OF, for there is hardly
month goes past IN which some new industry is not
developed in which their training vii! serve thein
well
Men at the head of such industries as have
mentioned have long wanted for assistants such
men as we are now training. The best they could
do was to get chemist TO look after the chemical
end Of the work and electrician TO look after the
electric end. Each OF these men understood his
branch of the work thoroughly. Of course but each