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Show MARINE ENGINEERING. Owing to the unprecedented expansion expan-sion of American shipping and the prospects of a great merchant marine flying the United States flag, several sev-eral universities propose to add courses in naval architecture, marine engineering and ship construction. Some of the institutions announce plans for establishing teohnical schools for thiB work, while .others eipress favorable opinion of that line of instruction. in-struction. The United States shipping board emergency corporation, which felt so keenly the lack of technicians in carrying car-rying out its shipbuilding program, and had to establish emergency schools for intensive training, is encouraging and fostering plans for the new schools in all the institutions capable of enlarging enlarg-ing their fields of learning in this direction. di-rection. It has compiled valuable data gained through experience with all phases of the shipbuilding industry. It is assumed that the need for marine ma-rine architects and engineers will grow as the yards expand and enter into competition in Construction for home and foreign account. With the aim in View of supplying important information informa-tion to those schools which sense the value of ship construction courses, the shipping board has complied with requests re-quests for data from the following: University of Pennsylvania, Columbia University, Harvard University, Cornell Cor-nell University, University of Michigan, Michi-gan, Boston Institute of Technology, Princeton University, Yale University, Drexel institute, Philadelphia, Pa.; Webb Academy, New York City; La-fay6tte La-fay6tte University, Bethlehem, Pa.; ( Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, N. Y.; Lehigh Le-high University, Easton, Pa.; Stevens Institute, Hoboken, N. J.; nd the Carnegie Car-negie Institute of Technology, Pittsburgh, Pitts-burgh, ,Pa. ' |