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tions as render great manufacturini;- iudnstries most useful. As the skilled 

 worker in a great manufacturing establishment is placed at that task 

 Avhich he can do best, so the farmer will utilize the field for that which 

 it can best produce. 



These brief surveys of the contributions which science has made to 

 the industries of our State would be incomplete without some tribute to 

 the wonderful work which technical education has accomplished. 1 mean 

 by technical education, that instruction in the mechanic arts which was 

 practically unknown a third of a century ago, and which has now ad- 

 vanced to such a degree as to place Indiana in the front rank of states 

 hi developing this branch of applied science. We have in this State two 

 great centers of technical education, namely, the Mechanical and Eligi- 

 neering Laboratories of Purdue University and the Rose Polytechnic In- 

 stitute. In addition to these, attention should be called to the splendid 

 courses given in manual training in many of our high schools and other 

 institutions of learning. The Hoosier of fifty years ago was the butt of 

 every jibe. His agricultural skill Avas supposed to be confined, to the 

 growth of pumpkins, and his mechanical genius was occupied with the 

 manufacture of the svelt hoop pole, but his State is now the home of the 

 most famous poets, novelists, statesmen, engineers and scientists. 



My friends from other institutions will, of course, pardon me if I 

 speak particularly of the wonderful work at Purdue developed first of all 

 i)y Professor Goss, who is now assisted liy a large corps of mechanical 

 and electrical engineers. It is evident from the activities of Purdue and 

 other institutions that we are in the progress of educating as engineers at 

 least 1.000 of the sons of the State. During the past five years from 50 

 to 100 have been graduated each year from the engineering classes of 

 Purdue University, and this great influx of men has been absorbed by the 

 industries of tliis and other states. Purdue has already a thousand grad- 

 uates in engineering. "Without stating in detail the influence of this great 

 institution upon the material prosperity of Indiana, the fact that so many 

 of its young men iiave been prepared for this useful life work is in itself 

 signiflcanr. 



Tlie whole industrial activities of the State of Indiana have derived 

 their life and vitality from the instruction which I have outlined. It 

 would increase to an undue size an address of this kind to go into a minute 

 detail. This technical instruction of our State is touching every branch 

 of our industries. Without speaking specifically of what it may be doing 



