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Caption: Dedication - Transportation Building Dedication Addresses
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generally Speaking, if not a satisfactory, at any rate a bearable Condition of life along with bottomless ignoranoe concerning such questions as elootrioity, - not even understanding the most common terms implied in this field of Investigation* And so it is from the view-point of an ab- solutely objective observer and from the standpoint of one who does not know the details and who cannot therefore have his attention swallowed up by the trees to such an extent that he oannot see the forest, that I venture to make a few suggestions as to the direotion in which an engineering school ought to be developed to do the largest service for our day and generation* First of all I should like to oall attention to two or three very striking facts, It was common notion when law schools were first established, that they ought to be located in the very heart of some great city where they could get hold of practicing lawyers, and Judges on the bench, to do the teaching, and where the students could in their leisure time attend the meeting of courts, listen to the argument of counsel, ponder upon the able points dealt by the Judges, etc etc. As long as that condition prevailed, the law school wac a poor spindling thing as a professional school It offerei comparatively little improvement over the old method ftf i < . t r m law. which consisted ohiofly of nwoenin -fyH- :i
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