Report of the Director

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1900 edition. Excerpt: ... REPORT. D1rector's Rooms, S1bley College, Cornell Un1vers1ty, Ithaca, N. Y., June 12th, 1900. To the Board of Trustees, Cornell University: Gentlemen: On the occasion of the expiration of a third lustrum in the history of Sibley College as a College of Mechanical Engineering and of the Mechanic Arts and of his service as its Director, and before formally entering upon a new term, the undersigned begs leave to present this Report. Summarizing the progress made, to date, and the condition of the College at the moment, the " needs and opportunities " of the University in this division of its special work, it is proposed to state the requirements, in curriculum, plan, equipment and staff, assuming that the intent of the Board, as expressed fifteen years ago, and its then formulated scheme of promotion of the purposes of the Founders and of the fundamental law, remain unchanged. The occasion is one of peculiar interest and significance, both as terminating what may be designated as the experimental stage of the rise and progress of the College and as the beginning of a new century, of a new lustrum in its history and of a critical period in the evolution of a great work, --that of introduction, in our own state, especially, and the foundation and development, of that broad system of education, that "Miltonian System" as we have come to call it, which should embrace all of the best features of the French administrative method, of the German industrial educa-1 tion and of the system of common schools and of free education characterizing our own earlier work in this field. In June, 1885, the Director of Sibley College was called, as he was then informed, in the expectation, on the part of the then President and the Board of Trustees, that he would be...