Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1906-03-06

dates for a stipend which permits
them to remain three years in
some foreign country for the
purpose of studying economic
conditions and acquiring prac-
lical knowledge of business.
The courses of commerce ought
to include foreign languages,
bookkeeping, commercial law,
history of commerce, commercial
geography, banking, exchange,
mail, railroad traffic, and visits
to factories.
Under the auspices of the ma
tional university should be or
ganized special schools for arch
itects, machinists, electricians,
dyers and weavers. How much
these special schools are needed
can be seen from. the fact that
there are in every civilized coun-
try special schools even for bar
bers, tin-smiths, printers, book
binders, decorators, druggists,
butchers, walters, turner's, FIRE
men, wood carvers, confection-
aires, painters, varnishers, musi-
clans, millers, bead makers,
dress tlimmers, paper hangers,
watch makers, hawkers, etc, and
the same course in arithmetic,
industrial drawing. physics,
bookkeeping, geometry, sketch
ing, mechanics, modelling,
chemistry, correspondence and
language is taught to every one
of them. For models in techni-
cal and industrial schools our
university should go to Germany
and America-never to England
which itself looks to Germany
for lessons. Not long ago Lord
Roseburg wrote to the "Bowed
of Education to carry out the
plan of building technical
school in London after the fashion
of Berlin Charlottenburg. 1t is
in Germany and America that
polytechnic schools established
tor the study of special subjects
have widened their field of oper-
alton until they stand today for
the application ofscienti6c know
ledge in all branches of commerce
and industry.
Before starting a national uni
| versity it will be worth while tc
send a commission of educational
inquiry to different parts of the
world to visit the institutions Of
learning, take notes, and finally
submit scheme for our univer'
sity. Without actual examina'
ton of modern educational sys-
| TENS followed abroad no amount
of writing and suggestion car
make any scheme of forming
university perfect.
The industrial schools unde
the national university ought t.
cover the following trades ant
industries: Weaving, finishing
cabinet making, basket making
metal, jewelry, lace, mechanics
porcelain, engravers, printing
blacksmithing, architecture, shi
building, spinning, paper max
ing, ivory works, brush making
sculpture, clock making, suga
and glass making, straw wea1
ing, musical instruments, ma
r chine building, technology an
painting.
: Technical education can neve
be either attractive nor complet
: so long as a system of practic
= demonstration is not deve
i oped with theoretical il
: struction. The technic
: schools for the most part, whe
ever practical, should be connec
4 ed with large factories where tt
student will receive wages for tt
y work actually performed the san
h as common laborer, and durlr
: the hour devoted to such instru
@ ton the student should assist
e the manufacturing of materia
s aud machines. Arrangement
n should be made with the mana
ers OF the factories to permit t
S student to temporarily act
It foreman or manager of some pa
e ticular department. or branch
,. manufacture after he has pass
Ie through the prescribed course
k~oiuSpn XUherever this IS n