THE PROGRESS OF SCIENCE 



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The Engineering Building of the University of Cincinnati. 



the state universities. In the end the 

 university is likely to become a center 

 of civic pride, providing higher educa- 

 tion locally and coordinating the libra- 

 ries, museums and other institutions of 

 the city. 



The University of Cincinnati in June 

 dedicated not only its fine engineering 

 building, but also a gymnasium, the 

 two buildings having been erected by 

 the city at a cost of $550,000. At the 

 same time President Dabney was able 

 to announce that gifts from private 

 citizens were the largest in number and 

 the greatest in amount — about $250,000 

 — ever received. Theie is no reason 

 why private citizens and alumni should 

 not give as liberally to a municipal or 

 state university as to a private cor- 

 poration, and we may expect to see a 

 still more remarkable growth of state- 

 supported institutions as the alumni in- 

 crease in numbers, in wealth and in 

 power. 



One of the advantages of having 

 local universities rather than only a 

 central state institution is illustrated 



by the cooperative engineering course 

 of the University of Cincinnati, from 

 which students were this year for the 

 first time graduated, and it is an inter- 

 esting fact that the first experiment of 

 this character should have been ini- 

 tiated by the first municipal university. 

 Owing to the initiative and skill of the 

 dean of the college, Professor Herman 

 Schneider, arrangements have been 

 made by which students work alternate 

 weeks at the university and at commer- 

 cial shops. The theory is taught at the 

 university and the practise is obtained 

 in the manufacturing plants. Students 

 are paid for their work in the shops at 

 the same rate as other men doing the 

 same work, and no inconvenience is 

 caused by the plan of alternate weeks 

 as the men work continually in the 

 shops in two relays. Students can thus 

 practically support themselves while 

 they are taking the engineering courses 

 in the university. They probably learn 

 more in the shops than by practical 

 courses which the universities could ar- 

 range, and the shops obtain superior 



