NOVEMBEE 9, 1906,] 



SCIENCE. 



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and manufacturing enterprises in this 

 country. The Engineering Schools of the 

 University of Pennsylvania already stand 

 high; but it seems to me that the oppor- 

 tunity lies open to them even more than 

 to their famous medical and law schools 

 to stand at the very top. This magnificent 

 building, equipped as it is with the latest 

 and best of everything, is the first and a 

 great step towards this end. But, after all, 

 your largest possibility and one which does 

 not exist for, and can not be created by, 

 any other American university, lies in the 

 opportunity for bringing your students 

 into close touch and personal contact with 

 the men who are working in and managing 

 the great industrial establishments of Phil- 

 adelphia. 



Frederick W. Taylor. 



THE ENGINEER AS A CITIZEN. 



I CONSIDER it no small honor to be in- 

 cluded as one of the participants in to-day 's 

 program. But though I come on the in- 

 vitation of those in authority, I hesitate to 

 appear before this audience, gathered in 

 sympathy with so notable a step in the 

 development of one of the greatest of Amer- 

 ica 's universities, a university presided 

 over by a man eminent as an educator, an 

 administrator, and a man of affairs, to 

 express my opinions on questions of engi- 

 neering education and citizenship and their 

 correlation. 



In spite of apprehensions as to my insuffi- 

 ciency for the duty I have accepted, I shall 

 make no apology, but fall back upon the 

 fact that, having been called to serve the 

 university to which as an adopted son I 

 proudly owe allegiance, it remained for me 

 but to obey. I can only promise you that 

 I shall not vaguely theorize, but I shall 

 speak from my personal experiences in the 

 fields of business, engineering and educa- 

 tion. 



In coming before you as the president of 



Stevens Institute of Technology, I come as 

 the successor of your own Henry Morton, 

 a graduate of, and later a professor in, 

 your university, secretary of the Franklin 

 Institute, professor in the Philadelphia 

 Dental College, brilliant lecturer, profound 

 scientist, man of affairs, but above all a 

 simple-minded seeker after the truth, too 

 modest to recognize his own great qualities 

 of mind, qualities combining the grasp of 

 genius with the sanity of common sense. 



It is peculiarly appropriate that the Uni- 

 versity of Pennsylvania should develop a 

 thoroughly efficient department of engi- 

 neering education in view of the important 

 scientific work done by the many-sided 

 Franklin, upon whose suggestion the orig- 

 inal Philadelphia Academy was organized. 



In view of what I have in mind to say 

 to-day, I am particularly struck by the fol- 

 lowing words which appear in the original 

 charter granted to the academy in 1753 by 

 Thomas and Richard Penn: 



The well-being of a society depends on the edu- 

 cation of their youth, as well as, in great measure, 

 the eternal welfare of every individual, by im- 

 pressing on their tender minds principles of mor- 

 ality and religion, instructing them in the several 

 duties they owe to the society in which they live, 

 and one towards another, giving them the knowl- 

 edge of languages, and other parts of useful 

 learning necessary thereto, in order to render 

 them serviceable in the several public stations to 

 which they may be called. 



It is interesting to note that the charter 

 of 1755, creating the college, enlarged the 

 scope of work to include 'Not only the 

 learned languages, but the liberal arts and 

 sciences, ' 



Since Franklin's day, tremendous strides 

 have been made in the sciences and espe- 

 cially of late years in that branch in which 

 he did pioneer work— electricity. 



It is to the credit of this university that 

 it has recognized its responsibility in con- 

 nection with this advance, and has quietly 

 progressed in the line of engineering edu- 



