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up a great engineering outfit here and a great engineering sohool upon the basis of a distinguished man at the head of a department, who himself is not interested in teaching and never appears upon the ground. We are delighted to have the service of great engineers. We are pressing them to come here all the

time, and to bring the message which their most recent contact with experience has enabled them to formulate. To

bring the inspiration which only the vision of men who have done things can bring to young people such as are studying here in this college, and who can give out of the rich storehouse of their experience, advice which will prove a stimulus and a guide to faculty and students alike. But after all, that work is supplementary, and it has little or no value if we, the teachers, are-not ourselves here, hour after hour, day after day, month after month, year after year, doing the work which we can do because of our training and because of our experience and because of our interest in educating these young men and making them ready to profit by the opportunity of contact with these great engineers. Now our men have had to sacrifice many things because of their devotion to this teaching side of the work. If they lived in a large city they would be called

upon by companies of all kinds for their services, and would be paid for it handsomely. If the policy of the

university were to encourage that sort of thing, our