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The problems common to many or all railways may be, and are studied by their great technical organizations, and also by the technical departments of the large universities. It would seem that Increasing use in research work might advantageously be made of the professors and laboratories of the universities* Ha the first place, the professors are apt to have both more time and more fitness for investigating purely scientific questions than railway officers, the ablest of whom are rapidly promoted to the higher offices where they must deal with the pressing practical problems arising daily rather than with the purely scientific ones* In the second place, when the facilities of a university for scientific researth are utilized by a considerable number of railways the university can afford to provide a bettor plant for the dual purpose of investigation and instruction than an individual railway would be disposed to provide for only the former purpose; and then, students are benefited who will subsequently make use — many of them in railway service — *f the knowledge they acquire in the course of the investigations. The most difficult, and in many ways, the most important problem of railway administration in this country, is how to increase safety. In point of economy of operation In point of safety they rank our railways lead the world. low. Their accident record is much misunderstood and much Some people try to t a c it appear much nle misinterpreted. batter, and other much worse than it is. We will make more 12
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