University of Tennessee Knoxville - Volunteer Yearbook (Knoxville, TN)

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Elie 011111ng E Engineering Tennessee needs Captains of In- dustry. We talk much of our 1111- developed resources; of 0111' water power possibilities; of our virgin forests of fine timber; of our rich mines of iron, copper, zinc and coal; of our fertile soil and excellent eli- mate; of King Cotton and King Corn. We are too easily satisfied. We are content to ship our cotton in bales to England and New England, there to receive the touch of skilled hands that will enhance its value many fold. Our raw materials, prepared for market by unskilled labor, are the source of wealth of industrial centers; our timber is converted into beautiful furniture in Grand Rapids. When we furnish our homes we pay freight both ways on our own timber and support a city of beautiful homes in another state, peopled by skilled workmen. We own in Tennessee a hundred million dollars worth of automobiles which We did not build. We need leaders of Industry in the South; men properly trained in the sciences, in their application to the practical problems of life, men Who will convert the materials and forces of nature to the use and comfort and con- venience of mankind. This is the law: no modern community can grow wealthy and support the culture that is based 011 wealth, dependent wholly on the products of unskilled labor and on the products of the soil. The time must come in the history of every state when it can no longer depend on the hounties of nature; when it must educate its people in the sciences and train them in malmfaeturing and industries, or it will go down. Scientific education is the forerunner of higher prosperity, and the state which fails to develop the intellectual faculty for pro- duction must degenerate, for it cannot stand still. We need skilled workmen in Tennessee. The old time apprentice system is gone, but it would he out of date in this age of rapid movement. A com- munity of skilled workmen cannot be moved. They must be trained and it is the problem of the trade school to supply this need; the school equipped to turn out men whose skilled hands are guided by trained intellects. The College Of Engineering has a three fold task. Tts first work is to train leaders of industry, men who can fill positions of responsibility in the factories, in transportation, in teaching the sciences and their application to modern life. The College of Engineering must he the Statets laboratory for research, where the resources of the state may be studied and understood, where waste may be eliminated, where new processes may be discovered that will add to human progress. The College of Engineering needs to reach beyond the campus to teach the masses of workmen the theory back of their trades, that they may become skilled workmen. MACHINE SHOP eCHAs. E. FERRIS DRAWING ROOM Page Twenly-six

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CHARLES EDWARD FERRIS DEAN OF THE COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING Page Tmcnly-hne

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MAURICE MULVANIA DEAN OF THE PRELIMINARY MEDICAL DEPARTMENT Page Tmenly-scvcn