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iger of an oil mill at Rockdale, Texas, i transferred every two weeks and are swer no. In every progressive nation such perfectly human machinery was
was a business visitor at Bryan last ■ thus enabled to work in all the various today each step is marked by some invincible.”
And he might have added that at
new discovery in science, art, com-
Saturday evening. ' 1 departments, many of which are as
: large as a three ring circus as Dicker- . the time these German soldiers were
merce or domestic economy. The held . ,
Professor Si Evans of the Extension i son declares. At the present writing passing through trance as an army
! . . j xv -v * knwoledge is as broad as the uni- + ra j. nef j rnachini°*s thev were heine
Department, left last Wednesday for l the city is under three inches of snow, or rained macnini-to, tney were oeing
the San Antonio Fair where he will | and more falling. They are happy v ' er3e itself - Th * development in the fed by the most skilled farmers m the
officiate as judge in the Live Stock | though and find time to visit the applied sciences, including agriculture, world, who remained on the farms at
Show. I theatres and other attractions and in horticulture, mechanical engineering, home.
_ : addition will have more fun in calling electrical engineering and architec- Texas has an opportunity to build
Joe Proter, E. E. ’10, writes from | the varsity students on the oc casion tural engineering, have wrought great- ^ ^ &t thiS time the m ° St
Wilkinsburg Pa. as follows; “Just a
line to let you know how we are get-
;ing along in Pittsburg. Baker,
McKay, C. Williams, Hutson and
myself constitute an A. & M. delega
tion, and we can truthfully say that
we are over pleased with the course
given here. We have all had experience
over the works and are all now en
gaged in making tests, with the ex
ception of Baker and Williams. Baker
has been in the Chemical and Physi
cal Labratory, while Williams is en
gaged in forming and winding coils.
McKay is in charge of the experi-
of the big game at Houston next week.
CONDITIONS AS THEY EXIST
AT THE A. & M. COLLEGE.
cr changes for the happiness of man
powerful school of technology in the
world. A few paltry appropriations
kind than were ever produced by the given in dribs will not do it. I am
combined wisdom of all the kings and opposed to extravagances and would
monarchs of the world'. Technical ed- no * ; want to see money lavished' on
An Open Letter to the Public From ucation is bringing to mankind a new 8orseous ^hidings and unnecessary
Col. R. T. Milner. democracy—the democracy in which equipment. But wisdom and economy
— the great mass of the people enjoy the •" ;u S : . e: est that our buildings should be
The Agricultural and Mechanical fruits of the’r own labor and in which adequate, fire-proof and durable, they
College of Texas presents a condition the labors and inventions of all men s ^ 0ll ' L - hP e d with all the labor-
today strikingly unlike that of any are more equally distributed. The Aories an apparatus necessary to
atories an
other educational institution in the power that gives light by night to the 8' ve ^ ie mos t thnr ugh and practical
world. Covering an area of about ten rich man gives it to a larger percent- lI1( * t liecre tical instruction in the sev-
acres are stretched 243 tents, in which age of the poor than ever before. The ■ ei depailme’ ts taught in the col-
are lodged 486 cadets. There are more electric car reduces the time between i - <ue - ^ Texas wil 1 furnish the equip-
mental tests on single phase motors, students in tents than were enrolled the country people and the city to a ! raeilt - Texas Wl]1 nls0 furnish the boys,
and I am having charge of three test ! in the college in 1906. The student few minutes at a cost so small that | rTnder the ll8ht ul scient:fic traming
body is the largest under military dis- the person of most moderate means i in agriculture and the different en-
cipline in the world. There are 600 does not mind it. | " ir eeving courses at this college, the
more cadets in this school than are ' The unrestricted means of transpor- ! value tbe servioe ol the young men
in West Point. If the two dormitories tation have created markets for the j "receive this I raining under
tables on experimental-direct current
machines, which the Westinghouse
people are going to place on the mar
ket in the near future.
We have a swell club, connected
with which is everything dear to a
now under construction were com-| held and the garden in every nook and
Ipleted the students in tents would fill ; corner of the world, thus increasing
college man’s heart. A. and M. has | them and leav eeighty-two unprovided
one of the largest pennants in the jfor. The enrollment up to date is 1027,
college trophy room. land it will no doubt reach 1100 by the
We have technical sections here on I middle of January. The mess hall can
the first three nights of the week, j not accommodate any increase over
the demand for the farmer’s products
and stimulating him to call to his
aid the highest skill known to science,
that he may increase the yield of his
land without increasing the cost of
who will
adequate facilities will be. absolutely
incalculable.
Shall this school continue to ad
vance or stop right where it is? The
question of getting young men to take
the work here is no longer debatable.
The fact that the student body has al
most doubled during the last two years
thus supplying us with theoretical J the present number. The cadets now | production. The telephone has placed
training. On Friday nights, there is ' practically occupy all the space in the him in communication with his neigh-| seltles that question - J he Proposition
a technical lecture by some notable | chapel. The section rooms are crowd-1 bors and severed the many hindrances 13 no " Sf iaarely up to the people of
and on Saturday there is either a led to their utmost capacity. j that formerly stood between him and
dance or an entertainment. I The mechanical engineering build- j the market.
I am writing this letter so that you i ing is wholly inadequate to accommo-
cau inform any of next year’s class jdate students that must have instruc-
both E. E.’s and M. E.’s of the ex-'tion in that department, and so press-
i
cellent facilities within the reach of i ing is the need for additional room
all apprentices. We are treated fine- j there that we are constructing a tem-
ly. We are transferred at reasonable
periods and in fact we are simply de
lighted.
The Westinghouse Machine Co.
takes M. E. apprentices.
In the Franco-Prussian war in 1870
Texas and their representatives in the
legislature.
I am not asking any personal favors
porary forge room of corrugated iron j nical training. J. W. Turner, superin-
which will answer our purpose until j tendent of technical education in New
the legislature can give us relief. We ! South Wales, writing on this partic-
have been compelled to secure addi-J ular incident of that war, most graph-
tional instructors in every department, ( ically describes the condition as fol-
I am strongly pulling for old A. and and the appropriation of $50,000 for lows: “It has often been said that
M. and I am gratified to see the in-! maintenance is more than $10,000 too the issue of the war of 1870-71 was
and 1871 the German soldiery demon- j for men ’ dh'octly or indirectly, as pres-
strated in a fashion such as to make ! ent condition s will justify the contin-
a lasting impression upon the whole j ,iance evei T employe ol this college
civilized world the importance of tech- : who wil1 continue to perform his duty.
I plead for the boys of Texas.
R. T. MILNER,
creased attendance. We will all be
with you in mind if not in person on
November the 14th.
Yours very truly,
J. H. Proctor.
Dickerson, Ingram and Shields,
members of last session’s graduate
class write that they are very
pleasantly located with The General
Electric Company at Schnectady, New
York. Although they as yet are not
making many tests on account of the
fact that the latter are at present
overcrowded, they are getting some
very fine practice, especially in the
assembling of machines. They are
small to meet the
year. For the years 1907-08 and
1908-09, when the number of students
was only about half of the present
number, the amount for maintenance
was $45,000. It is now only $50,000.
That we will be forced to meet a de
ficiency or close the school is too ap
parent. for argument.
The unprecedented educational rev
olution in Texas, the yearning desire
of our young men to prepare them
selves for industrial pursuits, calls for
immediate help. Need I stop now in
this enlightened age to discuss the im
portance of technical training? It
seems that common sense would an-
President Agricultural and Mechanical
College of Texas.
emergency this largely owing to the fact that every
German soldier was a mechanician.
The cavalryman was a farmer who
could shoe his horse and a veterinary |
surgeon who could doctor it. The
linesman knew the parts of his rifle
and could take it apart, repair it if
required and put it together again.
The artillerist was a practical en
gineer to whom the mechanism of his
cannon was an open book. Even the
drivers ot the baggage and. ammuni
tion wagons were blacksmiths and
wheelwrights. The Germany army was
a ‘technical school,’ making a march
ing tour through France for educa
tional purposes. An armed force of
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