July 12, 1901.] 



SCIENCE. 



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and the constant supplanting of manual 

 labor and man power by automatic ma- 

 chinery and by steam or electric power ; 

 these are some of the signs of the times by 

 which it is clear that some new kind of 

 preparation for the work of life must be in- 

 troduced into the school training of both 

 boys and girls. This, too, not only for their 

 individual success, but for the maintenance 

 of American leadership in manufacturing 

 and commerce. What this new education 

 should be for America may be exemplified 

 by the proposed Carnegie Technical Schools 

 of Pittsburg. Nothing short of such a 

 complete system should be planned. 



The scheme which your committee pro- 

 poses may be divided as follows : 



I. The Carnegie Technical College. 



II. The Carnegie Technical High School. 



III. The Carnegie Artisan Day and Evening Classes. 



I. THE CARNEGIE TECHNICAL COLLEGE. 



This should be a first-grade technical col- 

 lege, superposed upon a high-school curri- 

 culum, with entrance requirements equal 

 to those demanded by the best grade of ex- 

 isting colleges of engineering. It should be 

 a school of both pure and applied science, 

 and should prepare young men for leader- 

 ship in the commercial as well as in the in- 

 dustrial pursuits. Both our manufacturing 

 industries and our foreign commerce are 

 now demanding the highest technical train- 

 ing it is possible to bestow, but this train- 

 ing must be fitted to particular vocations. 



This college should be made attractive to 

 the greatest scholars in the fields of physi- 

 cal and chemical science. To obtain and 

 hold such men they must be given ample 

 opportunities for research. This college 

 must be supplied, therefore, not only with 

 great experimental shops and laboratories 

 for students' use, but in all departments 

 there should be splendidly equipped labor- 

 atories of investigation and research, under 

 the direction of the head of such depart- 



ment, and with a full corps of assistants 

 for the carrying on of lines of investigation 

 which are now partly or wholly unprovided 

 for in America. These well-equipped work- 

 shops and these experimental and research 

 laboratories would form the chief distinc- 

 tion of this technical college, and they 

 would also be the chief item of expense. 

 This college would support one or more 

 publications in which the fruits of this re- 

 search department would be given freely to 

 the world. While the number of students 

 in this college would be small, as compared 

 with the number in the technical high 

 school, the work done here would be of far 

 more benefit to the world, and it would 

 form the chief, if not the only, feature of 

 the whole scheme to attract attention and 

 to extend its beneficent influences beyond 

 the immediate vicinity of Pittsburg. 



Instruction in the Technical College 

 should include : 



1. Technical courses in — 



a. Mechanical engineering. 

 6. Electrical engineering. 



c. Civil engineering. 



d. Chemical engineering. 



e. Electro-chemical engineering. 

 /. Marine engineering. 



g. Eailway engineering. 



A. Sanitary engineering. 



i. Mining engineering and metallurgy. 



j. Architecture. 



k. Commerce and transportation. 



2. Courses in pure and applied sciences. 



a. Mathematics. 

 h. Physics. 



c. Chemistry. 



d. Biology. 



e. Geology. 



/. Mineralogy. 

 g. Astronomy. 

 h. Economics. 

 i. Commei'cial geography. 



3. Courses in modern languages. 



a. English. 



