Bisbee daily review., 1914-02-18
SCHOOL OF MINES
 AT COLUMBIA MEETS DEMAND FOR CHANGE
University Will Establish a
 Graduate Course in Which
 Students Will Enlarge Scope

curriculum will be marked, for with the beginning of the next scholastic year. in September, will come the consummation of a plan conceived by the founders of the school. half a cen. tury ago a graduate school of en. l gineering-on the same footing as the other graduate schools of the Uni versity. Under the new plan three years of specialized study in the var. ious branches of engineering will be offered Heading to the several techni cal degrees in the School of Mines, Engineering and Chemistry. The re- Quirements for admission to these schools will be the completion of at least three years of college or scientific school course, including thorough instruction fin Mathematics, Chemistry and Physics and in addi. ton certain courses in Drafting, shop work. Surveying and Mineralogy.
 To prepare for this graduate course inside the university a new course has been prepared in Columbia College leading to the degree Of Bachelor of Science. in which a little more than one half of the time of the student is given to the require ments. and the remainder is devoted to English. the modern Languages, History, Philosophy. and ,he Political Sciences. This course Is so arranged that the ordinarily well-prepered col. lege student should be able to com plete i. in three years and still have ample time for the usual social ac- tivities of the college. which the stud ent in engineering has found difficult in the past Students will, therefore, be able to graduate at the age of twenty-three.
 Time was when all that was re- gIired of an engineer was sourd technical knowledge Of his subject and when he was called into consul
 tation his advice was asked only on technical subjects, but in recent years something more has been necessary for the well equipped engineers. To day the engineering profession enters into almost every walk of life. The engineer has to be not only a man well versed in his profession. but has to be a man of affairs. He is called upon fer advice upon subjects, con nected with engineering today. which were never thought of a score of years ago He is obliged to go a long way further than mere technical advice. He Is expected to give iEfor- matien upon matters connected with the business worli fin a way the en. gineer 6f old never imagined. His pro fession leads him into paths
 which engineers Of the past never dreamed they could tread He can nc longer leave all problems but these F of science to others. but must be able to take his place in the world, pass upoE problems connected with politics, economies. and even diplo
 macy, and always hold his own in B the councils O. the great. That the o high school boy who comes to an en
 gineering school is handicapped un '- der these circumstances cannot be
 doubted and in order that all this may be changed, and the new order
 of things established at once the grad uate course has been established al e at the University The Engineefini r Schools will. in the future have the
 .ame rank as the Schools of Law Medicine, Philosophy, and the many '- other schools connected with the Uni d versity, and thy Engineering stud
 ents must have the basis of a genera college education which is bound t' v help them to attain the position nov t demanded Of the engineer.
 s The University does not expect t'
 draw entirely from the college fo e its students any more than the cthe V post graduates departments do. A .s present in the various graduat
 schools there are l,600 students hold u ing degrees from other institution d of learning taking advanced studie h and 1t is believed that the> eqIall.
 good advantages for further techinca
 study which will be furnished al th 't University will draw graduates of otf h CT technical schools to Morningdalt F. The graduate schools of engineerin will therefore be recruited Iron ls schools of other universities and co
 eges which take their students fror
 nigh schools of he country as ha
 the Engineering Department of C 'e lumbia up to this time. The last uI
 dergra auate freshman class entere D. the department last September
 the future the engineering studen ' will matriculate in the uniyersit
 graduate department and having pr'
 yiously, at enc college or anotne n, had that student life which means S
 much to the man ofafter years, wi o, be ready to take up the harder task
 of graduate work with no outsid
 matters to occupy part of the
 time, and at the end of three year n will go out into the world fully abl re to cope with the problems that com !. before them. with no necessity ft apprentice work-thst have been ST
 er at Columbia by reason Of It's grei in equipment which combines pl a, practical with the theoretical, SO th'
 the teaching Is demonstrated and p'
 into economical practice.