Mat 7, 1909] 



SCIENCE 



729 



these conditions, would be rather more 

 topical and more intensive than at pres- 

 ent, leaving much repetition and detail, 

 and particularly those subjects that will 

 not find application later on, to be taken 

 up by the student at his option, after 

 leaving the school. 



But to develop technical cotu-ses to the 

 point of greatest efficiency it wiU not only 

 be necessary to offer a suitable program of 

 studies, and to perfect an organization and 

 equipment, but instruction must come from 

 men who are broadly trained, scholarly and 

 cultured, who are educational experts and 

 administrators and who have achieved suc- 

 cess in their fields of work. To secure such 

 men it wiU be necessary to offer financial 

 consideration such as to induce them to 

 enter the educational arena instead of de- 

 voting their time to commercial practise. 



A study of the engineering coUege wiU 

 show that everywhere, and especially in 

 Germany, a strong reaction is taking place, 

 and the feeling is growing, that a well- 

 trained engineer must be a man broad in 

 his sympathies and possessing a knowledge 

 of people and things that shall give him 

 place anywhere and always. The Emperor 

 William on the occasion of the Charlotten- 

 burg celebration used these words to indi- 

 cate what was, to his mind, the connection 

 between the technical high school and the 

 engineering college: 



In the relation of the technical high schools to 

 the other highest educational establishments, there 

 is no opposition of interests, and no other com- 

 petition than this, that each of them and every 

 member of them for his own part, should do full 

 justice to the claims of life and science, mindful 

 of the words of Goethe: "Neither to be like the 

 other, but each alike to the highest." How is this 

 to be done? Let each be complete in itself. 



Finally, in the technical college as else- 

 where, the ultimate purpose of the training 

 offered is for service. But the service ren- 

 dered must be given, not with the hope of 

 material gain only or of selfish reward. 



Recent events in our own country have 

 shown us most clearly a regrettable lack in 

 our present social attitude. We have men 

 — trained specialists, professional, commer- 

 cial, technical — and we need more of them, 

 but if we are to meet successfully the pres- 

 ent state of social unrest and solve the 

 economic, political and moral problems that 

 confront us, these must be men of broad 

 vision ; men who realize the needs of society 

 and are willing to assume to the full their 

 individual and joint responsibilities. The 

 college of engineering must do its part by 

 broadening its purely technical character 

 on the lines which I have attempted to 

 indicate. 



But the proper results in technical edu- 

 cation can not be obtained without work 

 and there wiU be much opposition. We 

 must be open-minded always, definite in 

 our purposes and willing to stand alone if 

 in the right. What Burke says of Parlia- 

 ment finds application with us in America, 

 whether it be in politics, in the religious 

 world or in education: 



Their one proper concern is the interest of the 

 whole body politic, and the true democratic repre- 

 sentative is not the cringing, fawning tool of the 

 caucus or the mob, but he who rising to the full 

 stature of political manhood, does not take orders 

 but offers guidance. A. H. CHAMBERLAIN 



Thboop Polytechnic Ihstittjte 



RECENT SANITARY LEGISLATION IN 



KANSAS 

 As an illustration of the advanced work 

 that is being done in the interests of sanita- 

 tion throughout the middle west, a report on 

 the recent legislation, affecting the Kansas 

 State Board of Health, may be of interest. 



1. At the recent session of the legislature 

 an amendment to the present Food and Drugs 

 Law was passed> largely increasing the au- 

 thority of the Board in making rules and 

 regulations, and defining standards of purity 

 and strength for quality of foods and drugs. 



2. A comprehensive law was passed, pro- 

 viding for sanitary inspection in places where 



