551
authority on successful students each year, thus creating a faculty of Industry analogous to the existing faculties of Divinity, Law, and Medicine. I am of opinion that such honours would be a great incentive to exertion and would tend greatly to promote the object in view.
5. I venture further to express a hope that the Government will provide the necessary funds for endowing a sufficient number of Professors of Mechanics throughout the United Kingdom.
6. In conclusion I inform you that the necessary arrangements for securing the endowment have been made, and I have given instructions for the preparation of the Draft of a Deed of Trust which will be sent for the approval of the Lord President.
To Henry Cole, Esq.,
- Secretary of the Science and
- Art Department.
MEMORANDUM ON SCHOLARSHIPS FOR MECHANICAL SCIENCE.
To be competed for in May, 1869.
I. Having offered to the Lords of the Committee of Council on Education to "found thirty scholarships of the annual value of one hundred pounds each, to be applied for the further instruction of young men, natives of the United Kingdom, selected by open competition for their intelligence and proficiency in the theory and practice of Mechanics and its cognate sciences, with a view to tho promotion of Engineering and Mechanical Industry in this country," I propose that the following should be the general arrangements in the first instance which may be modified after the first competition has taken place in May, 1868.
II. That the thirty Scholarships of £100 each should be open to all of Her Majesty's subjects whether of the United Kingdom, India or the Colonies, who do not exceed the age of twenty six years, and be held either for two or three years as experience may prove to be desirable: that ten Scholarships should be competed for and awarded in May, 1869, at the annual National examinations in Science provided that a sufficient number of candidates prove themselves to be competent; that the successful candidates should be required to Spend the period of holding the Scholarships in the further satisfactory prosecution of the studies and practice of Mechanical Engineering, and pursue their studies according to the spirit of the endowment, making periodical reports of them; that the student should state where he proposes to pursue his studies, the Lord President of the Council deciding if the proposal can be allowed, also if the student's progress be satisfactory, and the manner in which it sh?ll be tested from year to year. In deciding if the plan of study proposed by the student be satisfactory, as much latitude as possible may be allowed. If the student wish to complete his general education instead of continuing his special scientific study, he may be permitted to do so. He may go to the Universities or Colleges affording scientific or technical instruction, or he may travel abroad. The successful artisan should be encouraged to study Theory, and the successful competitor in Theory aided in getting admission to machine shops and other practical establishments. All further details would be hereafter prepared and issued by the Science and Art Department.
III. The candidates must be of sound bodily constitution.
IV. The first competition should be in the following theoretical subjects:—
- 1. Mathematics (elementary and higher.)
- 2. Mechanics (theoretical and applied.)
- 3. Practical Plane and Descriptive Geometry, and Mechanical and Freehand Drawing.
- 4. Physics.
- 5. Chemistry, including Metallurgy.
And in the following handicrafts:—
- 1. Smith's-work.
- 2. Turning.
- 3. Filing and Fitting.
- 4. Pattern Making and Moulding.
V. No Candidate should obtain a Scholarship who has not shown a satisfactory knowledge of all the following theoretical subjects:—
- 1. Elementary Mathematics.
- 2. Elementary Mechanics.
- 3. Practical Plane and Descriptive Geometry, and Freehand Drawing.
with the power to use one or more of the following classes of tools:—
- a. The Axe.
- b. The Saw and Plane.
- c. The Hammer and Chisel.
- d. The File.
- e. The Forge.
I propose that the maximum number of marks obtainable in the theoretical subjects and those obtainable by the most skilled workman should be about equal.
VI. My object in devising the foregoing scheme has been, while requiring a practical acquaintance with a few simple tools as a sine qua non, to render the competition accessible on fairly equal terms to the student who combines some practice with his theory, and to the artisan who combines some theoretical knowledge with perfection of workmanship.
PREPARATORY EXHIBITIONS OF £25 FOR THE YEAR 1868.
VII. As the Scholarships Scheme can only come into full operation by degrees, I propose from the fund ultimately available for the scheme at once to create sixty Exhibitions or premiums, of the value of £25 each, tenable until April 1869, and to place them at the absolute disposal of the governing bodies of the following Educational Institutions and Towns, in order that they may award them to youths under twenty-two years of age, who may thus be aided to qualify themselves, and must undertake to compete for the Scholarships of £100 in May, 1869.
VIII.
- 8 Exhibitions to Owens College, and 2 to the Grammar School, Manchester, the seat of my Workshops.
- 3 University of Oxford, 3 University of Cambridge, 3 University of London.
- And one to each of the following Universities Colleges, and Public Schools:—
- University of Durham,
- University of Dublin,
- University of Edinburgh,
- Wutt Institution, Edinburgh,
- University of Glasgow,
- Andersonian University, Glasgow,
- University of St. Andrew's.
- University of Aberdeen,
- To each of the Queen's Colleges at Belfast, Cork, Galway, Ireland,
- King's College, London,
- University College, London,
- Eton,
- Harrow,
- Rugby,
- Charter House,
- Westminster,
- Winchester,
- St. Paul's, London,
- Merchant Tailors,
- Christ's Hospital,
- City of London,
- Shrewsbury,
- Marlborough,?
- Cheltenham,
- Chester,
- Clifton,
- Brighton,
- Liverpool,?
- 2 to the College of Preceptors,
- 3 to the Science and Art Department.
I propose that the following Exhibitions shall be given to Artisans only:—
- 3 to the Society of Arts,
- Also one for Artisans to each of the following towns:— ?
- Birmingham,
- Bristol,
- Swansea and Cardiff,
- Huddersfield, or Halifax,
- Leeds,
- Northampton,
- Sheffield,
and if there be any of the above unapplied, they may be given by the Science and Art Department to any other Scholastic institution which makes satisfactory arrangements for affording instruction in Mathematics and Mechanics, Freehand and Mechanical Drawing.
