(Founder's day 1914)

              FOUNDER'S DAY 1914
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The Technical Schools came later.   To-day what a vast growth we beholdl "Can such things be and overcome us like a summer's cloud, without our special wonderd"   These four departments have cone into being and expanded themselves so that each one can vie with any kindred enterprise, while the four departments taken together comprise an institution which, in the variety and value of its service, is said by experts.
^      And now we come to the Technical Schools, under two   wonderful men, who seem made for each other.   These is Mr. McConway, the Chairman, who knows how to drive and also hold in a rather rapid colt:   A genius - nothing less - is Harnerschlag and fortunate to be under the control of a steady driver.   Mr. Harnerschlag knows how to develop the young men.   The Technical Schools are only beginning.   For twenty years I have been a member of the Cooper Institute in New York, great gift of Peter Cooper.    I can tell my fellow-directors now some things I didn't know before -when 1 getfeck to New York and tell them what Pittsburgh has!   I won't tell them all - I mill just lead them on!
v     The Technical Schools, the youngest child of the Carnegie Institute which seems nobly ambitious to become the chief corner-stone of the edifice, opened its doors in October, 1905, with 120 students, chosen from 1600 other deserving aspirant^ who had to be pushed aside because there was no room.   But now with the additional buildings the enrolment has grown until the registration this year exceeds three thousand earnest young men and women.   The buildings which now house the School of Applied Industries were the original group, but the demand upon the schools for technical training from the very start has been so overwhelming that the original endowment has been increased from time to time, and meanwhile filfids were being provided for the necessary buildings and equipment, until the schools now comprise four groups of buildings.
It was a notable day when we began to teach the young men and women of Pittsburgh, but the work here as in other departments has expanded beyong the boundaries of our first bision, and to-day, while Pittsburgh students make up the larger portion of the enrolment, there are students from every state in the Union and from fifteen foreign countries,  s/ho come assured of acquiring the best technical training to fit them for useful careers.
The earnings of graduates compelled to earn their way while attending school amounted last year to $291,000.   What do you think of that?    I thought I had something about Pittsburgh   that I could tell you Pittsburghers.   You will straighten up and walk with a prouder step now that you know what you have here. After all, the man who is going right to the top is the man that shows as a young man that he is in dead earnest, and if he has   to live on half diet and poor diet he does it.    If he hasn't clothes he   doesn't mind much.   That's the boy that works in the Tech Schools in the daytime, and then takes a situation where he takes charge of some work for four hours in the night.   And let me tell you,   Here is something to remember.    In fact, everything I've told you is something to remember.    I don't want to burst your brains - just take this quietly.    I'd rather come back and repeat this to you.   I wanted to give you something that would set you thinking, make you proud of your city-,! and make you honor the men and women for doing good work.   Get that into your heads, $291,000 earned by these young men.    I will wager every one of them will go through life honestly and usefully. Any boy who does that isn't going to disappoint you in his maturity.   Perhaps it