Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-11-13
DECLARES NEWARK
NEEDS UNIVERSITY
Dean johnson, of New YOrk's
COeIIge, Speaks Before Board
of Trade.
URGES VOCATIONAL AND
TECHNICAL EDUCATION
Deputy State School Commits
sioner and Local Men In
dorse Plan.

Declaring that Newark's greatest
need Is a university for vocational
education and technical training, Jo-
seph French Johnson, dean OF the
New York University in an address
before the members of the Board OF
Trade last night, gave an exhaustive
explanation of the iatter-day system
the modern colleges use in preparing
their students for a business life.
He used his own incompetent edu-
cation" as an example of the training
a man should not receive and declared
the object of the vocational system Is
to prevent students from studying
useless subjects as much as II is to
teach them those things which viii be
valuable in enabling them to earn a
livelihood He was seconded in his
remarks by Lewis II. Carris, deputy
State commissioner of education, ana
six other local speakers.
The addresses last night followed
the regular monthly business session
of the Trade Board, at which time
the organization elected twenty-seven
applicants to membership, among
whom was Chief of Police Michael L.
Long, the first chief of police execu-
tive to become a member of the board.
Approve "Flood" Bill.
The business of the session was dis
pensed with as quickly as possible, IN
order to give more time to the speak
ers of the evening. The board adopt
ed a resolution approving the Dill IN
tioduced in Congress by Congressman
b. G Humphreys. of Mississippi, ana
Endorsed by the Mississippi River Lee
wee Association, which would lead to
the prevention OF further floods along
the river.
A letter from the Bayonne Chamber
of Commerce asking the Trade Board
to approve OF a new combination
bridge twenty-five feet above the high
water mark, in place of the present
Central railroad bridge over Newark
Ray. which it is proposed to raise to
that level, was referred to the COM
mittee on rivers and harbors.
A proposition by G. W. NICHOLS,
to advertise Newark-made goods
throughout the nation by means of an
"automobile flying squadron" was re-
ferred to the committee on manufac-
lures. President A. V. Hamburg, OF
the board, urged the members to at
tend the celebration of the Seth Boy
den centenary at the Newark Techni-
cal School next Wednesday An invi-
tation was received asking the board
to send representatives to the Ma
tional Rivers and Harbors Congress
in Washington, December 3, and b,
which is to be opened by President
Wilson.
Names Nomination Committee.
Committees to secure nominations
for the 1914 election and speakers for
The forty fifth annual banquet OF the
organization were appointed as FOL
lows: Nominations, Robert w
Adams. Charles L. Farrell and John
B. Stobaeus; speakers, Forrest II.
Dryden, Charles Bradley, Robert III.
l.IcCarter, Peter Campbell and John
II. -3aEdin.
Dean johnson In his address after
the meeting said that another fault
with the old education was its failure
TO Interest young men. He said the
trouble with o college education In
former days was that II fitted a man
simply for professional career and
that the practical trend was only OF
recent date, and in some cases not as
yet sufficiently recognized. Culture,
the speaker asserted, was not con-
fined alone to the so-called higher
things, but the practical studies were
Just as scientific as the study OF
philosophers. Tho main purpose OF
any education should not be the
question of culture, but the aim to
sharpen the intellect.
Must Train the Brain.
AS it is, the brain which produces
wealth, and as the dollar was the
only way by which to measure .
mans ability, it was necessary to
train that brain, and along with IL to
train the hands to carry out that
which the brain dictated. As one OF
the essentials in business MIR. john