Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1918-02-05
CORNELL CLASS
WORK AT HARLAN'S
Seniors at Engineering to Study
Practical Shipbuilding
Here.

Nearly two score Of Cornell students,
| members of this years graduating class
| n mechanical engineering, drifted into
! this city Yesterday by twos and threes,
and, during the afternoon and evening,
utilized the time in placing themselves
| in privStc homes and boarding houses,
| Preparatory for four-months residence
here while learning the practical end Of
shiphmlding at the Harlan plant of the
Bethlehem ShpbuiIding Corporation
II had been the original intention 10
quarter the students Mt the dormitory Mt
Twenty-ninth and Market streets, but
because thls was needed for other en-
plnSes Of the Harlem plant, end, in order
that the students might he better salts
fed by placing themselves, the detail
vas abandoned
The men were marshalled at the Harlan
offices at o'clock yesterday afternoon
and addressed by Professor r. Dicderich,
professor In experimental engineering Of
Cornell University, and Who was re-
sponsihle for their appearance here, Dur
ing their stay they will be under the
supervision Of Professor Robertson Mat
thewS. professor IN power engineering
at Ithaca
Last week WAS hard one for the stu
dents, as they were compelled 10 take ten
theoretical lectures on the work that
usually is distributed over the entire last
term. They will have 10 work at nights
and report on this theory, crammed into
ono Cwcek' s time, during the stav here.
The first actual work Of he students
viii begin tomorrow morning at Z O'Clock
when they Will report at the Harlan plant
They will be divided among the gangs of
a.,A
filters, and take their places with thc
other workmcn al the Harlan plant do
ing actual construction work They
viii work the usual eight hours with the
other men and share in all their troubles
and successes, the same as though they
had never seen 8 college or university.
SOME IN SERVICE.
Some of the men are enlisted in the
service of the United States, having been
permitted ID carry on their fnsl studics
because it was believed they would be
moro valuable working at their profes-
sion than IN the ranks They Will remain
here receiving instruction through classes
from ) 10 & IN the evenings, and lectures
on 81 thcr evenings until Man -, when thcy
viii return 10 Ithaca 10 receive their de-
grces After that they viii he free 20 60
y ittt' taftF iH's'Nt ~ AtA4pN A3iSI Efp-
fesSion.
The forcmen at the uuIan plant who
Will have charge OF the work OF instruct
inc the Cornell men IN the industrial
schools of the plant are pleased al the
thought that they viii be gwen the ol,-
portumty Of instl ucting these young men
in the practical end OF the profession
they have been spending three and hall
yp9rs engaged on
pom the outcome of the work done
by this class may depend the coming Of the
junior class of the university here IN
MAY In order TO aid the government
and give il trained men as speedily as
possible, it Is now the plan to take the
members Of the junior class III marine
engineering and start them OF their lest
years course on May - Study
ing ell summer with practical work at the
Harlan plant later in the fall. u enable
them 10 graduate at the end OF December
President Schurman of the university
has given every aid possible In advancing
the men as he has Id ali other war mea-
sures