Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-05-30
FRANK HARMAN LiNTHlCUM
Dean Of Drexel Institute
On Education and Industry

COOPERATION in education, or, better,
~ cooperation of education with industry,
is described by n pioneer in the movement
Frank Harman Linthicum, dean of the
faculty, Drexel Institute. This" said
Dean Linthicum today, gives the student
training in the fundamental theory and its
industrial application to engineering is so
correlated during his attendance at college
that he stands prepared and equipped at
graduation to take the responsibilities OF
executive positions In industry
Dean Linthicum served as an apprentice
with the American Steel Foundries at Ches-
ter following graduation from college, ana
has served as superintendent of the Ameri-
can Steel Foundres works at Chicago, has
been sales engineer for the National Steel
Foundries at Milwaukee and later assistant
manager of the works. He has been sales
manager of the American Manganese Bronze
Company, of this city, and is president OF
the F. H. Linthicum Bronze Foundry at
Baltimore.
Just what is the greatest need of indus
try today?' he said. 1T is production.
Production is the only solution for the grave
situation that Is facing the world today
TO secure increased production, the whole
industrial world turns TO the management
man, the trained executive, the man taught
to solve problems and teach the solution OF
these problems to the laboring man Ihrough
education alone can men be trained tC meet
the requirements of the increased RESPONSE
bilities of an executive.
"A graduate Of Drexel Is ready, after
four years training in this new course, 10
assume executive positions. During his con
fact with the industries n student is trained
specifcally in various fundamental opera
tions, studies human relations, gains the
point of view of labor. has opportunity TO
study and compare various shop methods
and greatest of all, through this contact he
assimilates technical theory during his scho-
lastic work with far greater understanding.
Year after year. because of this lack
of contact with industry technical grad
yates have stumbled and groped before find
| ing the work for which they are best ftted,
and in many cases remain misfits for all time.
"Our co operative plan Is designed to
| combine the class and shop work of the
| institute with practical experience in in
dustry. The co operative plan is primarily
| obtain for the student positions which for
| ward his technical education. Within this
| limitation the institute attempts TO obtain
those positions which provide the highest
| remuneration. The compensation which a
student receives from his work In industry
often goes far toward defraying the expenses
of his second and third years in school.
Under the co operative plan the year Is
| divided into four terms or three months eacn.
First year students attend school for three
| consecutive terms; the fourth term. which
comes during the summer, Is their vacation
period Beginning with tn" fall term of the
second year, the sophomore class Is divided
| into two sections. One section attends school
during this term; the other is assigned jobs
in industry. The two sections alternate at
the beginning Of the next term.
This quarterly alienation between class
room instruction and co operative work
ia continued until the fall term of the
senior year. The two sections are then con =
solidated and remain in school throughout
the remainder of the senior year. Graduation
is in June Of the fourth year.
80 well are these things realized by the
great industries that they are giving us 100
6er cent co operation. In fact, | believe
The time is coming when the industries will
grant scholarships to boys in the high
schools, paying their way through a techn
caI course ut college under this co operation
pIan, the young man being bound to give q
certain amount Of his time after graduation
to the industry that has co-Operated with
the college in training him.
when the ordinary college graduate zen
ters industry he Is not in touch with labor
he does not know how the workngman feels
lie is not in sympathy with him. And the
workingman frequently looks upon the col
egc graduate with antagonism, az q mar
a given advantages of which he himself wa,
rz deprived.