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In the brief remarks that I shall make today, , like to raise two questions for the oonsidera6ur friends the professors in this department of en, in lng, and for our friends the practical men engaged ;reat work of industrial development who are interI the development of the engineering school priecause o^ the service which it may render to these industries. thing has been more striking in the development of America general in ional echo misinterpr pducation, and indeed one may say education in pstern Europe, than the growth of the professDerided, hooted at, ridiculed, misunderstood, 9d, ignored by the practical men and by the

profession, and one may say further, by other educationalists, i.e., men engaged in other departments of education, the engineering school has gone steadily forward in its development in all countries until it represents today an absolutely essential element in the system of higher education in every modern country. It hasn't been so very

long, even in as enlightened a country as this, since doctors were in the habit of getting their training, not in medl equipme some me since t bhools with great laboratories and adequate ut in the private offioe, bottle-washing for practitioner. It has not been so very long

eragd lawyer found his training as copy clerk e of a practicing lawyer. Nor very long since