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              senior shop visit the mechanical section of the senior class in charge of mr heck made a three days shop visit to philadelphia during thanksgiving day week the party arrived in philadelphia at 10.15 o'clock monday morning nov 2f , and afier securing quarters at the bingham house spent the rest of the morning in inspecting the gear works of hugo bilgram here attention was called to the special machine for planing out bevel gear teeth of theoretically correct profile this machine is the invention of mr bilgram and was fully explained by him in person a variety of gear wheels were inspected and the special uses and advantages of them explained by mr bilgram in the afternoon the party went to the large machine tool works of bement miles & co and win sellers & co both manufacturers of large machine tools the first plant was of especial interest on account of the great number of big machines at work here also a number of teeth cutting devices were inspected particularly a machine cutting spur teeth whose entire action is automatic after the work tool and feed are once set at sellers special attention was paid to the large electric travel ling cranes on tuesday morning a very instructive visit was paid to the machine tool works of pedrick & ay res the power air compres sor and pneumatic riveter were fully explained and the applica tion of compressed air to small hoists well illustrated in the shop several special machines were also seen and a number of good points in shop practice brought to the attention of the visitors from here the section went to the south wark foundry and machine co this company is chiefly occupied with the manufacture of heavy steam engines and at present are constructing a number of very large blowing engines the foundry at this place was a revela tion to a majority of the party as castings of enormous size were seen in all stages of development the pattern shop was also in spected but no patterns of any considerable size were in process of construction tuesday afternoon was devoted to visiting cramp's ship yard the party went through the war ship alabama which is nearing completion and also the ships city of havana and admiral sampson the former is to be used as a mail steamer and the latter is one of four ships which are being built to be used atf merchantmen but which ca-n be converted into cruisers in case of war in addition both the marine shops and the old i p morris shops were visited and carefully continued on fourth page and here we naturally look for an answer to the schools which are admittedly professional — law the ology and medicine the character of these schools is that they deal exclusively with special subjects and there is little in common among them but there is sup posed to be a common preparation for them all namely a liberal or college education is this prepara tion necessary and is it in practice required ? if the answer to these questions should be both in the affirmative then it would seem to follow that any other vocation claiming to be a profession should fall in litie and require the pre paratory college course now we all know very well that there are many schools of the learned pro fessions which do not rigidly in sist on the degree of a b or the college preparation but it is equally true and more to the point that the more enlightened members of these professions and the faculties of professional schools are striving to make these schools strictly graduate in character and to exclude all applicants who have not had a college education or its equivalent this is a vital point in the discussion and if this requirement becomes universal then a professional school could be easily enough defined as a school of special study which presupposes a college course as a qualification for admission just as a college re quires the preparation of the secondary school but we do not want to tie our selves down with words or defini tions what shall we say of the student who enters the law medi cal or theological school directly from the secondary school and skips the college does he fail to become a professional student and does the school which admits him cease to be a professional school now there are plenty of schools of the s called learned professions which are of this character are the latter professional schools or are they on a college footing that the students in these schools are studying a profession there is no doubt and that they are doing this on a plane infinitely higher than the medical school of a quar ter century ago can not be dis puted from my own experience of medical schools thirty or more years ago i know that the best in struction winch the country then afforded in medicine was not above the level of instruction of the mechanic arts today and called for far less effort of mmd v far less thought and research than now demanded in technical schools so we cannot fairly withhold from the technical and engineering schools of today the designation professional because they take students directly from the second ary schools continued on fourth page but the question remains is it desirable to continue this practice football lehigh 5 lafayette 11 the football game at lafayette on thanksgiving day resulted in a defeat for lehigh by the above score the game was played in several inches of slush and the heavy snow storm almost hid the players from the view of those in the grand stand the day was not conducive to good football and kicking was the main feature of the game it was due to le high's inability to catch punts that she lost the game despite the fact that she was weakened by the loss of two of her best play ers at tackle and halfback there is no doubt that she would have won if the conditions had been the same as those of the first game lafayette was still powerless to stop lehigh's rushes consistently and was herself unable to gain making but three first downs during the game the derailed play was as fol lows : continued on second page lafayette kicked off to grledh.il who caught the ball on lehigh's 15-yard line on the first down dornin punted out of bounds on lehigh's io-yard line by use of the guards back formation lafay ette gained two yards through the left side of the line ther fott-r more making first down an end run at lehigh's left side was stopped without gain but on two plunges at left tackle and guard they made six yards securing another first down on the next play the ball was fumbled but they managed to recover it an attempt to force the right side of lehigh's line was stopped and the next play failing to gain lehigh took the ball dornin punted to mid field where carter was downed without any gain on a double pass lafayette made ten yards but the pass was a forward one so the run was not allowed the ball being brought back and given to lehigh by u.^e of the turtle-back forma tion chamberlain gained four then two yards making first down on the same formation homer made fifteen yards past keiper the next play failed to gain and on the third down homer made five yard but the ball was given to lafayette on their 25-yard line for foul interference a close forma tion on lehigh's right side netted one and then two yards but the third play was fumbled gledhill falling on the ball homer made first down around lafayette's right end making six yards a mass play netted two more but the next two fell a foot short of making the necessary three yards and lafayette took the ball on their 10-yard line carter punted but the ball went scarcely ten yards lehigh getting it on lafayette's 20-yard line an attempt to gain around lafayette's right side was stopped but two president drown's address the following are the remarks of president drown of lehigh uni versity in discussion of the report of the committee on entrance re quirements of engineering colleges at the twelf h annual convention of the association of colleges and preparatory schools of the middle states and maryland held at col umbia university nov 25 1898 the object of entrance require ments of technical or engineering schools is so intimately bound up with the character of the instruc tion in the school itself that i shall devote the greater part of the time allotted to me to a discussion of this latter topic we are met at the outset with the questions is engineering a profession and is the instruction and training in engi neering schools at present on the same plane as in the schools of the so-called learned professions there is undoubtedly some con fusion of ideas iv the public mind as to the meaning of the word pro fession and its ludicrous abuse at times has caused somewhat of a reaction against its extension be yond the three traditional faculties let us see if the dictionaries can help us s the century dictionary says : formerly theology law and medicine were specifically known as the professions but as the applications of science and learning are extended to other de partments of affairs other voca tions also receive the name the word implies professed attainments in special knowledge as distin guished from mere skill a practi cal dealing with affairs as distin guished from mere study and investigation ; and an application of such knowledge to uses for others as a vocation as distin guished from its pursuit for one's own purposes the standard dictionary says : an occupation that properly involves a liberal education or its equivalent and mental rather than manual labor especially one of the three so called learned professions hence any calling or occupation involving special mental or other attainments or special discipline as editing acting engineering authorship etc whether or not we need the moral support of lexicogra phers it may fairly be assumed that the practical result of scienti fic or technical education — the new education if you wi;l — has been the extension of the term profession to include all vocations requiring a high order of mental training or discipline which is applied to the practical needs of mankind the question whether or not the technical school of today de serves the name of a professional school is one with many aspects to it is there let us first ask any standard or any peculiarity which characterizes a professional school ? lehigh university south bethlehem pa thursday december 1 1898 vol vi no 17 the brown and white