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rofeseora could bo all the time employed as oxperts in iving advice to public and private corporations. Ever] ne of them would have five times as much practice as he ould manage. But such a thing would destroy the very ssenoe of our purpose. The administration of a great university like his is always between the dangers of Scylla and Charbyc is. The steady tension of the pull and push of the on

ide world to absorb the time and energy and thought of ur professors m l ' s a constant danger that they will b &ce Lrawn away to too great an extent to make their work ho: ffective; and, on the other side, there is a roal dang hat-'men who do not keep in touch with praotioo, may be pine too theoretical, too dogmatic, or too dried up to 1 effective leaders of the young in this great work of ac uiring an engineering education. These two fundamerj urriculum which absorbs ths

1 thinj js, then, gent1omen, ime of the student so that 3taff of teaching pi iy'i a i this ;particular work, are

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doing that with such a meas his magnificent result whiol F y of young men who oome up l