The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-06-09
STATE HAS GREAT
ASSET At AUBURN
The Polytechnic Institute Is a
Working Institution
PURPOSES OF SCHOOL
Much Credit Is Reelected Upon Presi-
dent Thach Who Was Called to the
Head of the Institution
Eight Years Ago
PURPOSES OF SCHOOL
BY WALTER HARPER

Auburn, June ESPECIAL 1.-The people
of Alabama do not realize the great pub
lie asset they have in the Alabama Poly
technic institute at Auburn. One must
come here, spend two or three DAYS GO
ing into the details of this mighty work
ing educational system to appreciate its
scope and value to the state and to the
country.
The Polytechnic institute is thoroughly
practical in every department 1t is
a working institution. Here work and
lots of it is the slogan. There is no class
distinction or aristocratic atmosphere to
detract from the full efficiency of the
school
There is no caste of teachers and pu-
pills. Indeed it is hard to distinguish the
teachers from the pupils. The teachers
and students are all workers. They be-
lieve in work and are not ashamed of 1t.
More than 100 graduates passed from
the portals of this institution this week
and every man of the class is a worker
If he was not he would not have passed.
Every member of this class is trained in
some one or more useful trades. He has
a practical education in some profession
of the arts and sciences that will win for
him way in the world. He does not
have to go out into the world and look
for a place. The place is ready for him
the day he leaves the college. Represen-
tatives of large industrial concerns wait
at the door of the college TO engage the
services of the men who walk out with
trades and have fitted themselves for in
telligent work.
Graduates Go Everywhere
They are going everywhere. Some
north, some west, some south, and others
east. The industrial and professional
world is looking for young men who can
do things.
The attendance at Auburn this year was
761 of the brightest and most promising
young men of the state. The majority of
them are men who must toll for living.
They come here to learn trades that will
give them a place In the world of actiyi-
ty. They come here expecting to work.
They know they must work and they
want to work. They want to be able to
do the best work. They are ambitious to
excel They choose one trade or profess
sion and after fitting themselves in these
general studies that 10y the foundation
for thorough technical training they go
after the one trade industriously.
Dreams of Pioneers
The dreams of the pioneers in reference
to the Alabama Polytechnic institute are
about to be realized Young men with
trained minds and trained hands are going
out into the world every year from this
institution and are performing deeds that
are not only rejecting honor on them
selves but on this great institution.
Here education is being applied in
practical way, The graduates from the
Polytechnic institute are finished men,
ready for the battle of life. They know
how to do something. The graduate has
acquired one trade in the mechanical or
Industrial arts that will make him USE
full to himself and TO the country.
The Auburn graduate may be found in
the busiest centers in this and many other
countries. They are scattered from New
are now and have for years been in con-
troll Of the executive affairs of the Mexi-
can National railway system. They built
most of the lines and are the engineering
geniuses that operate their mechanical af-
fairs.
Auburn men are In demand wherever
there is useful work to be done in the in
dustrial sciences.
Purposes of School
Quoting from the annual of the college,
just out. the leading object Of the insti-
tuition, in conformity with the act of Con-
gress and the acts of the state legisla-
ture, is to teach the principles of and ap-
plications of science.
I'm its course of instruction it gives
prominence to the sciences and their ap-
plications. especially to those that re-
late to agriculture and the mechanic arts,
and at the same time the discipline and
liberal education obtained by the study of
language and other sciences are not neg
lected. ~
1.-THE students are required to study the
English language. The Latin, French and
German languages are also taught and
opportunity for their study is offered to
students in any course. The special and
taw; Ernest Wood Thornton, Talladega
Alma Cole Tompkins. Arkansas.
Mechanical OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES Ed