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SCIENCE. 



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ia determining upon the very best plan and 

 the most suitable scope of the institution, 

 and of its curriculum. 



These expert advisers were Dr. E. H. 

 Thurston, Director of Sibley College, Cornell 

 University, Professor J. B. Johnson, Dean 

 of the College of Engineering, University of 

 Wisconsin, Professor Thomas Gray of the 

 Eose Polytechnic School and Professor V. 

 C. Alderson of the Armour Institute. After 

 their several reports had been made, they 

 were organized into a committee to consider 

 and report upon the schemes of the indi- 

 vidual reports and to present a final and 

 condensed statement of the plan upon which 

 all could agree. This is the report which 

 we present herewith to the readers of 

 Science. It includes, as is seen, three dif- 

 ferent and distinct forms of school which 

 may be combined as parts of one complete 

 technical university that might satisfy the 

 ambition of John Scott Eussell, were that 

 greatest of promoters of industrial education 

 living; or they may be adopted, singly or 

 together, on any scale which the needs of 

 the city, the opportunities of the founder 

 and the ambition of Mr. Carnegie and his 

 coadjutors may seem to justify. 



It is understood that this is simply a 

 recommendation of his committees and that 

 Mr. Carnegie is in no way bound to accept 

 either the plan, the scope or the estimated 

 endowment as binding upon him. It is 

 understood that the committees will report 

 to him the plan and scope proposed for 

 these schools, leaving him free to found a 

 school for artisans, a technical high school 

 or a technical college, or, if his ambition 

 mounts so high, a true technical university, 



including them all, and more complete and 

 universally fruitful of good to all sorts and 

 conditions of men and women — it is under- 

 stood that both sexes are to be provided for 

 — than has been any institution for tech- 

 nical, industrial and scientific education, 

 ever before conceived. Even this latter is 

 entirely within the means of Mr. Carnegie, 

 as limited by his publicly declared plans of 

 distribution of funds for educational pur- 

 poses, and it would be a glorious thing for 

 the world, as well as for Pittsburg and our 

 country, could the ideal technical univer- 

 sity be thus made a reality by our greatest 

 philanthropist. 



REPORT OF THE ADVISORY COMMITTEE ON THE 



CARNEGIE TECHNICAL SCHOOLS OF 



PITTSBURG. 



Pittsburg, Pa., June 25, 1901. 



Mr. William McConway, Chairman Com- 

 mittee on Plan and Scope. 

 Dear Sir. — Your Advisory Committee 



begs leave to submit the following report 



upon the scope of the proposed Carnegie 



Schools of Technology. 



INTRODUCTION. 



It has become clear, both to educators 

 and to business men, that the new century 

 demands a wide dissemination of a new 

 type of school training. The new methods 

 of concentrated capital and of wholesale 

 production; the ready means of transport 

 by which our antipodes have become both 

 our customers and our sources of supply ; 

 the practical abandonment of both the ap- 

 prenticeship system and of the individual 

 manufacturer ; the world-wide field of 

 operations in all lines of trade ; the infinite 

 number of applications of scientific knowl- 

 edge in all fields of modern industry ; the 

 whole-world competition which confines 

 success to the most economic production ; 



