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Caption: Dedication - Transportation Building Dedication Addresses
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in otner words there io a oortain period in a boy*s lif©> If haa had an adequate preliminary train- ing, when l e pan learn more and lay better foundaLions by i giving all his time to the mastery of a certain kind of school curriculum, than he can learn in any othor way. In brief* if a man is going to spend ten years in his engineering training, say from twenty to thirty, before he may be considered a competent engineer, it is a better thing for him to spend four or five years of that time in pursuing the systematic work of a thoroughly well organized school curriculum, under the direction of competent teachers, and then to spend five years in the practice, applying, supplementing, increasing his knowledge, than if he had spent the whole ten years in practical work. the justificatior of the engineering school. And this is If this is not true, then the boys are wasting their time in our engineering colleges, and the state is wasting its money in supporting and developing them. That this is true is rather evident from several interesting things in the history of engineering schools. I don't know that any better illustration can be found than in the development of our own engineering college, right here on this campus. Who would have thought twentyfive years ago that one of the great engineering schools in the world, which this has already become, could be developed here upon the banks of the Boneyard stream, more than a hundred miles from any great machines, from any «
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