The Nashville globe. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1906-193?, 1908-12-11

uenceQ the nOndSflculLufdl mus
tries to nearly as great a degree as
tie have improved agriculture. The
engineering courses in these colleges
ave supplied a large share Of men
who have made it possible to develop
our vast systems of transportation and
manufacturing and to erect our great
cities. They have provided a large
body of teachers of the science and
technique of the industries and of
home economics for the other schools.
They are the forerunners of the city
mechanic arts high school, and of the
introduction of the industrial and
manual training subjects into the city
graded schools. Our cities are coming
rapidly to see that these schools are
most useful in developing strong
class of technicians and artisans pre-
pared to establish and man within
their borders manufacturing indus
tries and transportation enterprises.
The engineering departments of our
land-grant colleges at the top, city
mechanic arts high school in the mid
die. and the manual training classes
. of primary graded schools at the base
are being evolved into system of
ladders up which the mechanically in
clined youth of our cities are learn
ing to climb and from which they are
bringing greater efficiency to our la
Dor, artisan, and engineering classes.
The degree to which we, as nation,
shall distance other nations in man.
ufacturing, if not indeed in the devel-
oping of transportation and in the
erection of cities, will in no small
part depend upon the rounding out of
the technical education or those who
are at work in our mechanical indus
tries. The use of federal funds to en-
able the engineering department of
our land-grant colleges TO lead onward |
and upward in this educational move
ment has in every way proved JUST
fable
The AGRICULTURAL department of our
State colleges are recently having a
most substantial development, and |
from them is springing brood of ag
ricultural high schools and still lar
ger brood of consolidated rura
school In the thirty-five agricultural |
high schools and nearly 200 township |
Or consolidated schools in rural COM |
courses of study have been
devised and used in which the general |
school subjects and the agricultural |
and home economics subjects are in |
terwoven and graded from the pri
may class throughout the entire
eight years of the rural school, the
four years of the agricultural high |
school, and the four years of the agri |
cultural college, These courses have |
become so universally successful that |
even conservative educators of the |
Did school acknowledge that the new |
education initiated ~ Congress in
1862 is destined to reyolutionize coun-
try life and the rural industries.
That the people are generally awak-
ening 10 the value of educating the
boy and girl who are to remain on the |
farms has recently been most emphat- |
ically proved in the State Of Georgia. |
A law was passed last July appropria-
ting about $66O00 annually for the
support of an agricultural high school |
in each of the eleven Congressional
districts of that progressive State,
Just now grandly rising from its indus
trial inundation of nearly half cen
Jury ago. This appropriation was
given on condition that each locality
securing one of these hools should |
provide a good school and experiment
farm and suitable buildings with
which to start a school. Governor
Terrell has just completed a canvass
Of the State and towns and counties
securing these schools have given the
State a average of nearly 300 acres of
land and several hundred thousand
dollars for buildings and equipment,
costing the individual con-
tributors over 100000. Secretary of
Agriculture Wilson is quoted as assert |
ing that this marks new era in
Georgia." and that Georgia will now
lead the South into new agricul-
ture"
My own State, Minnesota, while I
was a member of the regency of the
and agricultural college, or
ganized the first original and still the
leading American agricultural high
school. We congratulate Georgia
on being the first to take advan-
tage of this new plan to provide and
fully equip institutions or this kind
all over the State. Minnesota has re-
Gently started second agricultural
high school, and numerous other
States have established one or two