Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-02-27
Unique and Royal Road to
knowledge
BY JOHN T. BOIFEUILLET

julius L. Brown oldest son Of Senator
Joseph E. Brown of Georgia, closing the
preamble for donation amounting to more
than two hundred thousand dollars, said in his
will:
I wish this fund to be kept intact so
as to do all the good possible, for l be-
lieYe the Georgia School of Technology
is worth all the Georgia colleges COM
bined.
The school was a pioneer in its character
of education so far as the South is concerned.
In fact only portions of its curriculum were
taught anywhere in the United States at the
date of it's founding. The Act was passed on
October 3, 1885, and the school was opened
in the year 1888.
To Cover the Whole Field
1t the purpose of the school to cover
the whole field of technical and industrial
training 1t began, however, with teaching
civil and mechanical engineering. ELECTRICAL
engineering soon was added as department
and really embodied wider field than that
of the others Following this, chemistry and
chemical engineering were made part of the
curriculum, and the laboratory in this depart
ment boosted at one time some twenty thou
sand different dyes. Textile engineering came
in with the Aaron French School, an appro-
priation from the State legislature having
been secured, due to the earnest work Of one
of the members of that body to supplement
the splendid donation made by Aaron French
of Pittsburg.
This textile department has been gradually
enlarged, looms and machines having been
added from time to time until now it can
take the cotton from the field, gin it, spin it,
dye it, and weave it into almost every fabric
turned out by our American mills, from the
finest mercerized silks to the commonest
grade of cloth.
Clothes and Rug for Dignitaries
IF ri MN 11If nfI nI
for the Governor of the State by the boys
Of the textile department, who gathered the
cotton from field planted on the campus,
and carried it through all the gradations I'M
til they made elegant cloth out of which
the suit for the Governor was made. 1t Is
said that he wore it with considerable pride.
A bath room rug was woven by the students
for the President Of the United States, to be
used in the White House. The President had
stated, after an address to the boys, that he
would like to have some souvenir to remem-
Der them by.
Another one or the presidents, in his mes
sage to congress, called attention to the
school with words of commentator after he
had made a visit to it, and had addressed
the young men.
Boifeuillet
Under Efficient Leadership
The school has grown greater as the years
went by, under the efficient leadership of
Hopkins Hall and Matheson its presidents
till it has become a great engineering
university with ten separate schools all grant
ing engineering degrees and a student body
exceeding three thousand one hundred young
men, all over sixeen years of age, being fitted
under it's efficient administration for almost
every calling known to the industrial and
technical fields. The high standard of ad-
ministration will be maintained under the
new president, M. L. Britain.
No liberal arts degree are given so that
the school does not conflict with or attempt
to cover the field occupied by the other col
leges Of the state. Its text book in mechanics,
and other like departments is the machine,
and the students are generally taught to con-
struCt as well use the machine.
1T its vast shops and foundries the young
student takes the pig iron and transmutes
it into Steel and uses it in the construction
of engines and lathes and other machines used
in our great industrial system.
State Ought to Be Proud
The state ought, to be proud to support
school with its possibilities for good in fitting
young men to take part in all matters of de-
velopment building, and discovery throughout
the whole scope of our industrial life.
The farmer would soon be helpless without
its teaching in this age Of machinery while
the merchant and professional man as we'll as
the capitalist are all beholden to the men who
resources of the state, harness its water pow
ers, dig its mines, discover and apply the
laws Of nature to the production Of wealth,
to the support of industry within the vast
domains now accessible to man both on land
and sea and in the air.
1t has not been thought too much to ask
the State to help the forward progress of this
school in order to keep abreast with other
States of the union. Since its establishment
It's method of teaching has been taken up by
every state in the union.
Most Wonderful Success
The school has been called, in labor publ
cations, "The Mechanics Royal Road to
Knowledge" One year in it's shops has been
said to equal four years spent elsewhere as an
apprentice in learning a trade
The Georgia schools curriculum is diff
cult but the success of the graduate surpasses
that of any other similar school Of it's age in
the American union. Many of it's engineers
have become millionaires already, many 9TH
ers are on the way, and the world of man
ufacturlng industry has gone forward rapidly
under the impulse which its founding gave to
education of like character in America.
The founding Of the Georgia School of
Technology by former Governor Nat E. Harris
Is the crowning achievement of his ample
and useful life He has reared a monument
of numerous shining deeds, but this institu-
ton will always be at the top as the filling
and most splendid accomplishment of his
notable career.
Her hat obscured his view at the theater
and he leaned forward and asked if it would
be possible for her to remove it.
A stiTening of the head was her ONLY an
swer. After few moments he repeated his
request. Then she turned on him.
There is no demand for my doing So" she
said.