Massachusetts Institute of Technology - Technique Yearbook (Cambridge, MA)

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1915 TECHNIQUE 15 along the line they are pursuing now, for five years, with a reason- able remuneration. H. S. Hs1N. THE CO-ED AT TECH f' VER fifteen years ago, after having taken the degree of L Bachelor of Arts at one of the large colleges for women in the East, I came to Tech. As a place to study chemistry, both in its practical and theoretical aspect, the Institute was highly rec- ommended to me. I must confess, though, that, till I was actually in Boston and had called at the Bur- saris oflice and seen some of the Institute buildings, Tech was but a name to which one wrote for a catalogue and from which came a large and exceedingly impressive book, telling of courses innumerable. In reading that catalogue, and in subsequent attendance at the Insti- tute, one was impressed with the very slight English training that is required from a Tech student. One cannot but feel that the student has been deprived of a wealth of happiness and pleasure when he has not gained some intimate knowledge of the best English and American writers. Then, of course, the ques- tion comes, I-Iow could a man at the Institute do any more work than is already required of him, in any course he may choose to take?,' That the Institute stands for work, work, and little play, no one who has spent even a month there can ever doubt. The man or woman going to Tech must have a willing- ness to work and a capacity for work. In the year and a half that I studied chemistry at the Institute, I never found but that the women received every courtesy both from the students and instructors. To my sense women were accorded ab- solutely fair play, and it seems to me that is all that the most ardent advocate for women's rights could hope and ask for. Concessions and special privileges to Women, I am glad to say I did not see, nor should they, in my judgment, be expected or counted for, on the part of women who may choose to attend the In- stitute or any co-educational col- lege. To me the work that I did at Tech was exceedingly satisfactory. The training was careful, accu- rate, and broadening, and I gained thereby a sureness and certainty in that particular branch of work which I studied at the Institute, which enabled me to do work as an analytical chemist in one of the large New England mills for several years. The student who goes to the In- stitute and is willing to work comes away from there not only ' ' ' 7 ..1. 0 U-V 21217-L2iT.' 'Ag' 1745741 i . E :I X c , , -ff ' -'H' r'-'r.'.u::r:?'1.swr.::.w,,,...:.- - '5' fl. ,4+,w m'::z'f'W'rm'.m-: '::f r -- -A-' '- .-111' Ewa' I : ,Lax ,-,-,Mwwmem-...I-rf:affzff'f'M::N ifgl- ,, M, iWnssasav.az:iwz4nqrcx.,,. - '-mi i.-f-Jai F P..:i L- .,..:: c QW: If 5 H AQ I . E. 5 E. 2955: Mn. .:,:4'ff,gzg,z,saaw1z ' j Ki, kxrafji F1-4..:..1sasaam qggqmmlggqfggocgsmgxx, E gggggigg .. . ,x 5 ef .. z ml ' R:---V-....,...,.,..,,-PH! '1 1 1 1 2' if ' '. -fi 2' 3. Q N' ii 1 1 'i L '?1'.HC'mc':v,':'m--':v:.'i. :::':55 .. H., . . . . . .. 55-17, f' '- . 4: S I

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14 TECHNIQUE 1915 government once more began to send students abroad, but the num- ber was very small until the year 1909, when a delegation of forty- seven students was sent over to America. Since that time a dele- gation of from about fifty to one hundred students has been sent to this country every year. The students, from early times to 1909, were, in large majority, busily engaged in courses in literature and art, such as law, economics, gov- ernment, etc. Since 1909, however, the tendency has been more and more toward the technical side of education, and, as the Massachu- setts Institute of Technology is bet- ter known to China for its courses in science and engineering than any other American institution, a great number of Chinese students have enrolled in the Institute in the last ive years. And this in spite of the fact that the Institute charges the highest tuition and gives the most diflicult work in the coun- try. They now number forty-two, which amounts to two and six- tenths per cent. of the total num- ber of students enrolled at the Institute, a.nd about five per cent. of the total number of Chinese stu- dents in this country. They are all supported by the government, with the exception of tive, who are self-supporting. The governmental students have to pass a competitive examination at home for which any Chinese subject, with- out distinction as to locality or re- ligion, can apply. The candidates are expected to have an equivalent amount of preparation to that of an American high-school graduate. Be- sides chemistry, physics, geography, history, mathematics, and one foreign language other than English, the government lays special emphasis on English and Chinese. The can- didates rnust have enough Chinese to be able to express clearly and precisely in writing what they in- tend to say, and their English niust be at least grammatically correct. Therefore, the governmental stu- dents in America, who have gone through such examinations, should be able to maintain their school standings fairly well, though they are more or less handicapped by the language used here, which is en- tirely different in nature from that used at home. The governmental students can choose the course they like best and the school they think best suited for the course chosen. They are allowed to stay in America for an approximate length of six years. They can have one or two years of practical work, if they choose. In other words, they are almost as free as any private students. After their return, however, they are ex- pected to work for the government .,,M, ....,. A : nn' :Ili-!f:fIEl,'I'5 ' '7 7 ' i 1 if lx Y' , . ' 7 L1 'I ' ' J' j5..M-I '- - II ' '. -s :

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16 TECHNIQUE 1915 well equipped in his particular line of work, but he has behind him the many years of successful work of Tech in training men and women for their work. He who goes out from the Institute into any kind of work has a rich heritage of well- earned traditional value in the very fact that he has studied at Tech. I have always found that Tech is a name to conjure with, and we all know that this would not be so if the students had not gained from the Institute that knowledge and skill whereby they have made good. HORTENSE W. LEWIS, Vassar, ,97, IVI. I. T. 1899-1900. THE COLLEGE MAN AT TECH F' I ' HAT of our college men? Are they not quite an im- ' - portant factor in Tech life? Considering that about twenty-five per cent. of our student body is made up of men from other colleges and universities, we can but admit that theirs is quite an important part of the life at the Institute. VVhat are their sentiments with regard to the school? What part do they, and what part should they, take in our student activities? Before we either enjoin them to take part in these activities or judge them too harshly for failing to take an inter- est in the things that are of interest to us, we should first pause and con- sider the conditions under which they have come, and the part that Tech should play in their lives. Some of these men have spent but one year at another college, others have spent two: we will but con- sider the case of the man who has either obtained a degree, or has, at least, spent three years at another institution of higher education. A college training is a strange adventure: the value obtained there- from is illusive and intangible, but it is there, nevertheless. It has been well said that the value of a college education rests, not in the courses chosen nor in the volumes that are studied, but in the associa- tions, the meeting of fellow-men on a common ground, the grasping and conquering of new conditions,- in short, the Ending of one,s self. An eminent authority has said that the great benefit derived from col- lege life lies, not in what one gains in concrete knowledge, but in what one loses of that which is objection- able in him,-all of the rough spots, the meanness, the selfishness, and the petty conceits being rubbed off, and the true character beneath polished by the contact with fel- low-men in the daily life upon the campus and in the fraternity house. And so with these men one great phase in their lives is past and gone 9 E 5 7- X -.,,--..,.fmf,- 1 --.... - Eur, P-. 5 .5 - r-E rf-w'f si rib: i l . ,. . . ,L4f62WEr.LkbalL-y, .f, 6' 1 Yr -4,-M5E,3 57?.i4fQv'g?fEgm5:::m..:l N.-. Mi: Q , 15: Ehzg in .E--fffififf u me QQ, W-WF4Q4341j542fF--l'Y'+i g -:::az:::.:-: gm. .::x4f,'s:z:zoa:w4mW :T G f, lf- Y- gi-yur...i-nigvccaffifliliii'11 c ,, ' . ' rei- : S f E 5 ff Q -gloom--1 am- irgjhksi Egan! 'Left:.':-F :::2f.'f:,ccc':a','F57F ---- F l .EA -i t' WX' I M 3' fl' 5 il M: 5 ,m -.L . . . . . .. . -: , 115-,M-1 L. ,. fi KQE fi F'. 'E51F,Hq',Ifz4-fpJ1vf,5f,,1gr-F,1grg,vfi i 41 Y -5 nl