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made model yachts and sailed them and turned many of the tops and baseball bats 
used in the locality, and there was never any question regarding the line of work I would 
follow. Nevertheless, on advice, I worked for two years in the Honolulu Iron Works 
before going to college and consider them among the most valuable years of my life. 
Summer work in shipyards and vacation sea service, as provided in the Lehigh course 
of study, cannot be too highly commended and may be of more value than shop work 
during the regular course, but I believe that the majority of the students would receive 
greater benefit and have greater earning power at the start if the time devoted to economics 
and business administration subjects were devoted to shop work, reserving to a later 
date the study of these special subjects described by the author, for only those who would 
be most benefited. 
To sum up, I doubt if the course would be of as much value to the average boy as 
would be the case if the usual four years’ course was taken to be succeeded by a fifth 
year devoted to the subjects appropriate to an understanding of the business part of 
shipbuilding and shipping by those who especially desire to take it. My main objection 
is not that the subjects selected are not of value but that to crowd the ordinary four years, 
considered none too much for a technical training in naval architecture, with these 
other studies, may result in a student acquiring a false impression that on account of 
these special studies he would be capable of stepping immediately into an executive 
position requiring special aptitude and often years of actual experience. On the other 
hand, a boy goes to school in one sense for an education and, from my observation, the 
particular school he goes to or the character of the course amounts to less than the 
characteristics he may possess. If Mr. Chapman could select only those who would be 
most benefited, his course of study would be ideal. 
Pror. C. H. PEasopy, Member of Council:—I wish to congratulate one of our alumni 
on being able to start a new course in a fresh field. Those of us who have labored many 
years in this field have had all the conditions presented this morning brought to us many 
times, and we find in many cases we cannot at once change a large and somewhat inflex- 
ible institute to meet the conditions which are suggested to us. It may, perhaps, take 
us a little longer to accomplish such a result. 
I wish, however, to say that it is a great comfort to me, now that I have finished with 
this rather difficult task, to be told by a number of men in practice that a good, sound 
training is the best thing. That is what we thought we could give them and what we 
have attempted to give them, whether they acquire some of these other accomplishments 
or not. 
I am somewhat doubtful about the courses in the business management and the 
production of executives. The whole thing is rather new and is to be justified by its 
works. I hope that it will be. 
As for the matter of having sets of drawings, I personally have worried all of the 
people I know well enough, asking them for sets of these drawings, until I have become a 
nuisance to them. Our collection of drawings cannot be compared with the drawings 
which are found in shipyards, but we have, at any rate, a number of sets which are as 
complete as the shipbuilders would be willing to let us have, and which I think are quite 
sufficient for our purposes. 
Mr. Joun FLopin, Associate Member (Communicated) :—Professor Chapman is to 
