PRACTICAL PLASTICS PROGRAMS FOR COLLEGES.

The birth of a new industry is generally the result of a felicitous combination of practical technical inventiveness, pioneering marketing, and progressive business management. The plastics industry has been no exception, but while inventiveness and individual resourcefulness are still as always welcome, informal technical training of many employees must give way to formal training, particularly in practical areas, now that the industry has matured. The program at Lowell Technological Institute is described in some detail. It might well serve as a model of a sound approach.