tion, and one be sent to the bereaved parents of
the deceased.
ATTEST
L. RAY. MORGAN,
Recording'Sec'y
SCIENTIFIC AND TE CHNICAL
• SCHOOLS.
BY GEN. FRANCIS A. WALKER
*Address of General Francis A. Wrikor, LL. D., President
of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, on the occa
sion of the formal opening of the new Engineering Building
of The Pennsylvania State College, February 92, 1893.
The opening of a new building, dedicated to
the work of education, under whatever name, in
whatever grade, cannot fail to be an occasion of
interest to every teacher and to everyone deserv
ing the name of scholar; and should not fail to
excite pleasure in the breast of all citizens, let•
tered or unlettered, who regard the wel'are of the
Commonwealth. But a celebration like this of
to-day, where a large and commodious building
for instruction in engineering, both theoretical
and experimental, is dedicated to its uses, in the
presence of .the Executive .and members of the
Legislature of a great State, is an event especially
to attract and delight those of us who have devot
ed ourselves to what we deem a reform in educa
tion, by, which many of the traditional studies and
exercises of the College shall be replaced by cours
es not only more immediately and practically use
ful to the student and to the community, but also,
as we conceive them, more truly educational, in
the sense of more fully calling forth and develop
ing the powers of observation, reflection, judg
ment, and self-determination ; in the seine, more
over, of more completely arousing the interest of,
the pupil and commanding the exertion of all his
faculties and energiesin congenial work. As one
who has, for full twenty years, been connected
THE' FREE LANCE.
JOHN FOSTER.
JESSE J. WALL.
GEO. C. BUTZ.
Cominillee
with scientific and technical schools, schools,
standing in the same relation as this is to
the State and the Nation, I do, with all my heart,
congratulate the President and Trustees of the
Pennsylvania State College, and the Governor,
Legislature, and citizens of this great common
wealth, upon the completion of this noble and
commodious structure, conceived and built tinder
the inspiration of the new education.
The growth of scientific and technical schools,
during the past thirty years, has savored of the
marvelous. BAore the war there were, indeed, a
few institutions which boldly departed from the
college type and essayed to educate their students
in science and the technical applications of sci
ence. First of these in point of time, and still of
high rank amid a host of schools of similar aims,
one.must name the Rensselaer Polytechnic Insti
tute of Troy. Then came, simultaneously, in
1846-7, the Scientific School of Yale, now known
as the Sheffield School, and the Lawrence Scien
tific School of Harvard, the latter destined to re
main through a long term of years chiefly a school
of research ; the former, from the first, important
alike as a school of research and as a school of in
struction. Your own institution came into exist
ence in the later years of this period, though un
der a less pretentious name. The school with
which I have the honor to be connected, was
chartered by the legislature of Massachusetts four
days before the firing on Sumter.
. The close of the Great Rebellion marked the
beginning of a new epoch in our national life, in
more than the particular of the extinction of hu
man slavery. Those four years of tremendous
conflict had wrought the nation up to the appre
ciation of a greatness which does not manifest it
self in. fine phrases and moving utterance. If the
war had done nothing else for our people, it would
have done much simply in teaching them that
deeds are greater than words. The American
people, through those long days of anguish and
suspense, learned how much higher and nobler is.
the power that can do and dare and endure, than