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the various developments which have been 

 considered in the preceding pages may be 

 added, each as the preceding element is 

 completed, working continually toward the 

 technical university and the highest ulti- 

 mate divisions of the scheme, the depart- 

 ment of experimental engineering and re- 

 search. 



'' The method of organization would be 

 that which best insures the management of 

 the whole of the great scheme and of each, 

 of its subdivisions by men expert each in 

 his own field, whether that of director of 

 the technical university, principal of one 

 of its schools, or professor or instructor, or 

 workman in shop, drawing-room or labora- 

 tory. Such an organization of a staff of ex- 

 perts being provided, the administration 

 will be certain to woik smoothly and effi- 

 ciently, without special attention to detail 

 on the part of the trustees. Their largest 

 problem will be the matter of securing the 

 endowment and its income from deteriora- 

 tion in later years and consequent impedi- 

 ment or interruption of the enterprise. 



" Every division of the institution, from 

 lowest to highest and first to last, should 

 be so planned as to work in concert with 

 the public schools of similar grade as far as 

 practicable. The technical high school 

 might accept certificates from the academic 

 high schools of the city and from other 

 academies of similar rank ; the pupils of 

 the city schools might be given admission 

 to the classes of the technical school in the 

 shops and technical departments; a half- 

 time school, as advocated by Professor 

 Higgins, of "Worcester, might possibly 

 come of such mutual aid of city and tech- 

 nical schools. The technical school would 

 be able, in some cases probably, to promote 

 the initiation of special instruction in man- 

 ual training and in the kindergarten forms 

 of technical work in the public schools. 

 Every possible means of allying the tech- 

 nical and the common school work should 



be availed of, and the cardinal principle 

 should be constantly proclaimed and en- 

 forced : the purpose of the whole move- 

 ment is to advance the best interests of the 

 people of Pittsburg and its vicinity. It 

 should be made distinctly understood that 

 it is desired to make use of all possible 

 ways to that end and to cooperate with 

 every other educational movement." 



In closing this far too lengthy paper I 

 must acknowledge the great interest taken 

 in the development of the scheme for the 

 new technical school by the Engineers' So- 

 ciety of Western Pennsylvania, by the Wo- 

 men's Domestic Arts Association and by a 

 number of eminent engineers, physicists 

 and technologists at home and abroad ; and 

 the sole purpose of my paper is to ask the 

 further cooperation and kindlj'^ advice of 

 the members of this Association in formu- 

 lating our plans, in steering clear of ' dere- 

 licts ' and in making the Pittsburg Carnegie 

 School of Technology what its generous 

 patron wishes it to be and what the de- 

 mands of this great industrial nation re- 

 quire it to be. Any communication sent 

 Mr. Wm. McConway, chairman of our 

 committee, Pittsburg, Pa. , will be received 

 and acknowledged with great pleasure. 

 J. A. Brashear. 



SECTION A {MATHEMATICS AND ASTBON- 

 03IY) OF THE AMERICAN ASSOCIATION. 



The officers of this section were : vice- 

 president, James McMahon ; secretary, G. 

 A.Miller; councilor, G. B. Halsted ; sec- 

 tional committee, James McMahon, G. A. 

 Miller, H. A. Howe, Florian Cajori, F. H. 

 Loud ; member of the general committee, 

 C. A. Waldo. The meetings of the section 

 were well attended and most of the papers 

 aroused discussion. With the exception of 

 the anniversary meeting at Boston, the 

 program was the most extensive in the 

 recent history of this section. It consisted 

 of the following twenty-five papers. As 



