Norwich bulletin., 1917-01-23

research they can improve their pro- cesses and overcome their difficulties The salvation of these smaller con cerns will often come from such insti- tutions as the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the research organiza- tions maintained there being. as have said. able to cope with almost any problem presented. The diff1culties here are almost wholly financial and could easily be overcome by a. little wise planning and of course adequate sup port from the industries concerned.
 This is one of the ways in which schools of applied science and indus try will be brought into closer con- tact. If time permitted I might speak to you of others. but within the limits permissible I can only refer, and that very briefly; to another method of al- lying industry with the schools The Institute of Technology has recently adopted scheme which is described by an impartial experiment in e1uca- tion and as ernbodying a splendid idea of the most direct cooperation be- tween education and industry in be- ing transformed into reality with boldness of conception that is uni- que in the history of education" The fundamental equipment of the Insti- ute. It may interest you to know that the operation of this plan has brought this state within the fold Of technology for we now have labora- tories in Connecticut as we'll as on the banks of the Charles. namely. tine works of the American Synthetic Color Company at Stamford. Other works that are now part of our laboratories are those of the New England Gas and Coke Company in Everett, Massa- chusetts, the Eastern Manufac curing Company, a paper company in Bangor, Maine, the Carborundum Company at Niagara Falls, New York, and the Aths Portland Cement Company at Allentown, Pennsylvania, so that you see that we now have great laborator- fnsz in i've Cfa Tn, of, of these industrial plants we have a professor permanently resident in the plant. who, with his assistants. is re sponsible for the use of the plant as educational machine. of course un- der the general direction and in inti- mate cooperation with the mana Sers of the plant. Of course the plan has long been followed of taking students -on brief visits to different plants but the scheme that I refer to is some thing very different.
 Here a select group of students ac- tually work in the plant for con- siderable period of time and wort under the direction of a professor of the Institute. They move around from one plant to another in regular cycle. and so get training which is very different from anything possible in any other system that has been de- vised. Those of the students who have shown a special aptitude for research will, after graduation, return to the plant in which they are specially in- terested or in which a special oppor- tunfty presents itself, and with the Institutes professor who directs in struction in that plant, carry on re- search and investigations for the di- rect benefit of the industry concerred. I hope that this brief sketch will at least serve the purpose of indicating the trend of things in the school. The best brains of the country in the world industry must be concerned at least irv1e 1 he r1f e scientific schools. In the indust rial welfare of the future, science will surely be in the saddle and no nation, however well placed, can survive in the struggle by the use of any other weapons than scientific weapons. For the needs and ambitions of this cour- try our schools of applied science must be the best that are to be found any where.
 The Coast Guard Service.
 As the last speaker of the evening Toastmaster Selden introduced Capt. F. C. Billiard of the United States Coast Guard, Fort Trumbull, New London. Captain Billiard said he con address such a notable gathering. You gentlemen are members of the Cham Der of Commerce. he said. The term Chamber of Commerce seems to me to indicate palatial marble halls. It in cludes those men who are progressive and who foresee. You gentlemen are business men. We are all more or less buiness men,. The world today partic- ularly honors business men, men of action and who do things.
 With considerable familiarity of va rious parts of this country I may say that the people of Connecticut mani fest hospitality and a kindness for the stranger that is not excelled any where.
 The United States has become great world power and it recognizes E- EI,o& 1-& h<@ f sea power Captain Billiard then went on to tell in an interesting manner of the origin of the Coast Guard service and of the great work it is doing. One of the principal duties of the coast guard in time of peace, he said, is to assist vessels in distress. Another inn portant duty is the removal of dere- ltcts and another the patrolling of the ice fields in the vicinity of the grand banks of New F'oundland.