TECHNICAL EDUCATION XVII 



scientific data. Our machinery, our chemical pro- 

 cesses or dyeworks, and a thousand operations 

 which it is not necessary to mention, are all di- 

 rectly and immediately connected with science. 

 You have to look among your workmen and fore- 

 men for persons who shall intelligently grasp the 

 modifications, based upon science, which are con- 

 stantly being introduced into these industrial 

 processes. I do not mean that you want profes- 

 sional chemists, or physicists, or mathematicians, or 

 the like, but you want people sufficiently familiar 

 with the broad principles which underlie industrial 

 operations to be able to adapt themselves to new 

 conditions. Such qualifications can only be secured 

 by a sort of scientific instruction which occupies 

 a midway place between those primary notions 

 given in the elementary schools and those more 

 advanced studies which would be carried out in 

 the technical schools. 



You are. aware that, at present, a very large 

 machinery is in operation for the purpose of giving 

 this instruction. I don't refer merely to such work 

 as is being done at Owens College here, for exam- 

 ple, or at other local colleges. I allude to the 

 larger operations of the Science and Art Depart- 

 ment, with which I have been connected for a great 

 many years. I constantly hear a great many 

 objections raised to the work of the Science and 

 Art Department. If you will allow me to say so, my 

 connection with that department which, I am 



