The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1915-01-05

Of the City of New York. No
OF trumpets has heralded DR..
arrival. but he has the rec
Dndation Of representative Amer
educators such as President
Illus Eliot of Harvard. President |
Hise Of the University of Wis
President Wheeler of the Uni |
ny Of California. and DR.. Abra-
F1exner, of New York.
WA came q few days earlier than
expected him, and slipped
lily into his place at the college.
kput a prompt check to the move
~ on foot for an elaborate recep.
I'm his welcome at which he would
v an address outlining his plans
the City College. an article in the
W York Times states.
2XfHe is willing to discuss general edu-
ztional problems, but he refuses to
IDcuss any specific changes which
proposes for the City College. He
Ices not eve hin that he has a revo-
t~1utiOnary plan up his sleeve, how
we much Jealous interyiewerS may
prod him to such an admission.
This is the man to whom more than
- any other is due the credit for
D0lling the University of Texas up out
,S&9 insignifcance to the status OF one
~ the more efficient State universe
q les in the country, enrolling well over
sz1hree thousand students.
81 During his six years Of presidency.
he has labored with the same quiet
afe~esolution and unhurried sureness
(which he has exhibited during these
few days III this city. From the
95day that he assumed the direction of
university, he bent his energies
to Il plan which would lift the insti-
5 tuition wholly out of politics "a much
= needed reform.
The Biggest Problem.
"a 1hiC nrni116Jca AGAINST nDIX1np pdll
[.cational matters with politics DR..
. Mezes brings with him to New York.
. However moderate his other views
e. may be, however much he may quail
& tfy his praise or censure Of various
. departments in our school system, his
4 attitude in regard to politics is vigor
& Gus and unConCealed. 1t is common
8 knowledge that early in his admins
tration at the University of Texas he
II was offered the opportunity OF becom
ID ing United States Commissioner OF
q Education, but he made it plain tina
& he had no taste for that sort Of pub
81 3ic life.
Il A Times reporter questioned hin
Il about his views on the tendency o
Il the past two or three decades towart
! practical education as expressed IL
I the trade and vocational schools an
in continuation work Of all sorts, am
about the general educational prot
( lem.
1.-THE largest and most difficult prob
/ lem of our educational system is no
trade training. the amount or tn
manner of it," ne said. 1.-The value o
the vocational school, Of the contin
,uation school which co-operates wit
the manufactures in carrying on tn
young education, is unique:
toned. We have still to work out tn
system in better detail, blu its plac
in our general scheme has become e
i tablished.
will the establishment of this il
3 creasing number Of trade schools an
81 institutes of technology draw frol
the number of those who would Othe
wise choose what we call a purely Gu
h tural education? 1 do not think S
q Tut such a change in our methods
sure to have some effect even on tt
higher Institutions Of learning.
The most obvious effect is, I b
1ieve. this desire for immediate ar
tangible results from education. F.
this the evergrowing trade school ar
the manual training courses, Whi(
have come to be customary addition
to all school work, are in large mea
ure responsible. Certain sorts
trade training give a definite result
an article of wood which can be so
for a definite price, the ability to Wi
u house.
"Gradually this expectation Of de
mite result has been extended
branches of education other tn:
trade training. Gradually it has be
forgotten hat the schools and t
colleges can, after all, accomplish We
little more than to establish a stal
ing point, n that actual conta
with life, bringing a maturing
judgment and of powers, is the
sential to fit a man for work.
There has grown up an impressi
that a boy can step out of his me
ical school and his few months of
terne training and perform a diffic1
operation as well as the most skill
surgeon. 1t is argued that the we
schooled young lawyer should be
possession Of as many essential IA
as the attorney who has argued h;
a lifetime of cases. UncOnsciOuSly
expect the boy whose college life /
been designed to fit him for pub
service to step up the day after gre