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There are two or three thoughts which I wish to present to the meeting in connection 
with this subject. Professor Crouch has spoken of the practical training which they 
insist upon at Webb Institute during the summer months, which training consists of 
about eight weeks of work in the shipyards. In my opinion this summer work is most 
important. A great many of the young men whom we take at the Newport News Ship- 
building and Dry Dock Company come from engineering schools, and we depend largely 
upon these schools for recruiting our technical forces. At Newport News we very seldom 
go outside of the company for a foreman or an official, and I think that this practice is 
becoming more and more a custom at all of the shipyards, the policy being to take in 
young men and let them grow up in the firm’s employ, encouraging them to feel that they 
have a future with the company. So we take young men from the universities and from 
our apprenticeship courses and develop them and look to them to become the future 
shipbuilders at Newport News. 
We sometimes find that the young men who come to us from the universities expect 
too rapid promotion, as has been commented upon by Dr. Sadler and others. I hope 
that you gentlemen who are teaching naval architecture and marine engineering will 
impress upon these young men that it is a long road in shipbuilding to position and re- 
sponsibility and that the money consideration which young men receive during their 
early years in this work may not be as great as in some other business or profession, but 
that the work is full of interest and opportunities for useful service and gradual advance- 
ment. ‘The money which they may earn as young men is only a small portion of their 
remuneration. 
Along this line I want to refer to a remark made by our chairman several months ago 
in ordinary conversation, which would be of great benefit to all young men if it were 
indelibly impressed upon them, in order that they might see that one’s best con- 
tinued effort is the only way to success. As our chairman put it:—‘‘ No man can live on 
his reputation; a man lives by making a reputation.” 
Mr. WILi1AM T. BonNER, Member:—While we are discussing colleges I would like 
to mention Drexel Institute and the Franklin Institute of Philadelphia, two schools that 
have introduced practical courses in various branches of the shipbuilding industry. I 
can speak a little more familiarly about Drexel, as I happen to be on the Joint Committee 
which was appointed to arrange a course for welding at the institute, but which is not 
yet in full operation. However, we are getting on very well. 
Drexel Institute originally started out as a trade school but has been getting away 
from that idea, and the aim now is to devote attention, as far as possible, to higher 
education in the different practical branches which lead to the shipyards, to the railroad 
shops and to other institutions of that character, and thereby assist, in a complementary 
way, in the development of the productive side of the mechanic. 
We are not setting out to develop only presidents and managers but hope to produce 
a class of foremen and superintendents who will not only understand the practical side 
of the different trades at which they are working but how they may get on and become 
managers of the men. We are also trying to instill in the minds of the students the 
necessity of using their brains and their consciences, as well as their hands, in carrying 
on their work. 
I probably never felt so hurt in my life as I did a few days ago, while inspecting some 
welding work that was going on, and the leading welder, who was rated to be one of 
