Repository: UIHistories Project: Book - Overview and State of the University (1913) [PAGE 14]

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ever saw. Bere among other ifl a tl) m machine recently given u a - memorl I I i Iwa I I \dams, a bright>oiin raduate, who • m ntabl al resulted from fidelity bo In employer and z I

profession. T h i s great fly wheel w f o u n d r y ; it is the largest e v e r a t t e m p t I I OUl III I b\ I n d e n t tl id

is partof a steam engine which the boj tr< for the Louisiana Purohase Exposition it St I ui i year. This engine, with bheir Illinois I lentrsl dyi

e t e r ear, will be likely to draw its full s h a r e I at

to our department of mechanical engine >ring.

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others to profit by. The neatnec i>nd order* the pla* attract one, and man) a3 un man finds li >ng ph ur< and profit in the work which he is her requir I t Vou understand thai in these shops we ai training young men to be blacksmiths and < tit 1desirable as such training is. Where that is d bh must spend a much longer time in the p tl n a« ticable here. We are training them for ineer . \\ are teaching them respect for the mechanic, and ng thatthey know something of the difflcultie in hi We are putting into them some knowledj the mental processes which are at the foundation < u. *. ful engineering. And there is a plan about it all. n study theories, and then they carry them out, The) into the designing and draft ingroom; and then they ma I

t h e p a t t e r n s ; and t h e n they mould a n d east t h e pari n i r o n ; and t h e n they finish and b u r n i s h t h e m ; t h e n til

mount them and make up the finished machine* Rnalh they t urn on the power and see whether their theories have been correct and their worh exaot, No one bo) do< all

t h i s , but all have a part, in it, T h e work is not p o i n t !

There is interest from beginning to end, and real n faction in the climax. While their hands have been ing deft, their heads have boon -row in dear and troi\

and t h e i r h e a r t s h a v e been grow in}! t o l e r a n t a n d k m d l \