October 25, 1901.] 



SCIENCE. 



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of the central feature of a scheme to compre- 

 hend, ultimately, if properly sustained, a series 

 of schools of graded character from the evening 

 classes and the trade schools for artisans and 

 youth, of both sexes, to the technical high 

 school, the schools of engineering and architec- 

 ture aggregated in a technical college, and to 

 the aggregations of these schools and colleges 

 in a technical university which shall include a 

 department of research. It is proposed to em- 

 ploy the gift of Mr. Carnegie, presented at the 

 time of his announcement of his ambition in 

 this direction, in the establishment of a tech- 

 nical institution to occupy substantially the 

 same position and to do practically the same 

 kind of work as the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, 

 the Drexel in Philadelphia and similar schools 

 in other large cities. It is recommended that 

 a plot of land of about 60 acres area be at once 

 secured and this institution immediately organ- 

 ized. 



" The plan and scope as laid down by the 

 commitee and the experts invited to give coun- 

 sel will make the school of national importance 

 and place it in the front rank of similar schools 

 in the world." 



The endowment at present advised is said to 

 be $5,000,000, and the final and completed form 

 of the ' university ' will presumably require 

 about double that sum. 



When studying a plan and determining the 

 scope of the institution, the expert advisers 

 were called upon, each for a statement, and 

 were later called together as a committee, and 

 the present report states that ' appreciating the 

 dignity and the magnitude of the subject, we 

 were agreeably surprised to find that all re- 

 ports agreed in their essential features.' 



"Accordingly when the members of the Ad- 

 visory Committee held their final meeting in 

 June they had no difficulty in uniting in a gen- 

 eral scheme for technical education." 



The scheme was in outline the largest pos- 

 sible ; the idea being to provide a model, so far 

 as it might be carried, and to hold up an ideal 

 toward which to approximate as time and 

 means should permit. The introduction of 

 manual training, in cooperation with the public 

 schools, and a general system and policy of 

 constant cooperation in all practicable ways, 



the provision of day and evening classes for arti- 

 sans, the organization of a scientific and tech- 

 nical high school for youth of both sexes unable 

 to find means and time for a liberal education 

 and yet requiring instruction in the fundamen- 

 tal principles of the industries into which they 

 are to be inducted, together with provision for 

 general education, in conjunction with the pub- 

 lic schools, the neighboring university, the 

 great libraries of Pittsburgh and vicinity and 

 with the operations of the existing Carnegie In- 

 stitute, art school and museum, constitute the 

 first and a great task. Later, if practicable, the 

 educational structure will be built up and down 

 and broadened into a great system offering the 

 industrial classes Huxley's ladder ' from the 

 gutter to the university.' 



"The Carnegie Technical College with its 

 crowning features of scientific research and 

 publication, must be left for future endowment. 

 Its realization would complete a technical uni- 

 versity unequaled in its scope and influence, an 

 institution worthy to foster the highest aspira- 

 tions of Pittsburgh — or of any metropolis, the 

 committee might have added." 



Finally, the committee remarks: "We 

 would respectfully suggest to Mr. Carnegie the 

 many advantages to be derived from handling 

 as a whole, rather than in parts, whatever 

 scheme of technical education he may contem- 

 plate." 



" The Advisory Committee wisely recom- 

 mends that an endowment shovild be provided 

 of such magnitude and character as will safely 

 maintain the required income on the face of 

 falling rates of interest and the demands of a 

 steady growth." 



THE NEW YORK PATHOLOGICAL INSTITUTE. 

 Announcement is made that the plan of re- 

 organization of the Pathological Institute of the 

 New York State Hospitals for the Insane under- 

 taken by the State Commission in Lunacy is 

 gradually taking shape. An advisory board 

 has been appointed, whose duty it is to aid in 

 the development of the Institute and the carry- 

 ing on of its work on broad lines and to assist 

 the new Director soon to be appointed. It is 

 the aim of the reorganized Institute to carry on 

 work in the sciences correlated with psychiatry 



