The Role of Modern Science in Textile Technology

For you, today, in Life’s great book a chapter ends. A new one waits beyond tomorrow’s page, Devoid as yet of word or chart by which to gage The measure of your progress. What portends The future? Will you find in formula and graph, In test tube, whirling spool, or throbbing loom The golden truth that will provide an epitaph To finish the new work you now assume? Weave well the threads of scientific lore Into a pattern glorious and fine; A fabric which shall be by your design, Of blended elements, a cumulative store. Combine as warp and weft the finest things Each branch of science has to give; For intellect beyond its data soars and brings Perfection to the volume that you live ! —E. R. SCHWARZ