| Show UNIQUE CORN ELL son there to complete III education A singular honor has just been con upon cornell college by an englishman says tile now borts world tie searched the world over tor tho best place of learning to which to send his son and fixed upon cornell the choice was made after a personal os of colleges and universities in great britain abo continent and in the united states the englishman liana a wealthy manufacturer of engineering materials in manchester he la prominently connected with the municipal government of that city and has made study of educational matters being of the school commission of manchester he to fit his son to succeed him in his business one that requires much technical knowledge the young man has just been graduated from cambridge university ver sity in england the father has been stopping in new york and sailed for england a few days ago iio discussed at length his in educational cat ional matters with captain B W dayton of new york captain dayton said the other day air renold declared that the real reason of the inability ot tho english to compete with us in the manufacture of locomotives and other mechanical devices was the fact that in great britain there were no colleges where young men are adequately fitted for technical the common notion that yankee push and ingenuity were responsible for alie decadence of english manufactures he said wag all wrong the attention given by aberli can colleges to technical courses and the turning out yearly of large numbers of young men trained and fitted for nil kinds of high mechanical work was the real reason lie said that lie had paid a visit to the manufactory of a firm in providence and found in the drafting department part ment 29 young men all college graduates and all trained in college for mechanical work in england the manufacturers have to train their own young men tho latter often havone comparatively little education in looking tor the best place to fit hla son educationally for als awn busl ness lie investigated la this waha I 1 others the methode at gorf college in philadelphia joua HI alne in rutgers Kut gers atit ma institute of cornell ue stat cornell aras the fit the greatest practical tolue he that abo om bury and many times petit los to have the courses ID the great and the establishment or wl leges but the premier had alffa posed the plan as y JM |
