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But hero again we see the same development. Just In proportion as the systematic, regular work offered in the medical school is given by men who are living their whole tine and attention to teaching these subjects has been increased and modified to such an extent that the medical student must now in the best schools snend all his time on the wor k outlined by the medical school, has professional education in the field of medicine been developed and perfected. The same thing is true in the great field of engineering education. The idea makes a very strong and subtle appeal to the imagination, that if you can get great engineers who are doing things, digging great canals, building great bridges, erecting great structures, to become professors in engineering schools, and then let the students spend as much of their time in manual work as possible and get out and visit shops and all that sort of thing, you will develop a great engineering school, and that was the idea, of course, in the beginning days. Just

in proportion as engineering colleges have come to accept the new standards, the new ideals, the new notions of engineering education, viz. that the professor^hould be a professional teacher and tho student give all of his time to the work, have they become an effective, permanent and ever more important element in our scheme of engineering