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lie ployera, is ' - : • * ' • iul this ] '' «e can safely •' e bette:* and more uso* he sec*and princir>le namely; that .&• ought t*o be getting those things in in the ourriou lum In t he univerait V W^l i "7 w * w " "° utuj acquire be Why, * i'Ow w,hat are these things? first the intellectual development that leads Then it ia the acquisition of aoe him to raster ^problem. certain mental tools, such as mathematics in some departients, that will give him the facility for grappling with largest and highest and most difficult theoretical questions that come into the whole problem of practical or theoretical engineering. The school ought to occupy all It ought time for our years, or five years possibly. to occupy his time about those things which are valuable and those things which can be better acquired within this period of fivo years than at any other period of his life. I think it is safe to say that the man who does not acquire a mastery of mathematics, for example, for purposes of investigation i" his particular department while he is in • -«-.college and university, w m , W A U U V^* J rare exoepJ ,,~4«<»r.ait v will witli very tne ^11-. k*± - iuiiif flrt nuv *LYV1 nower• but will turn lions, never acquire this facility ana p u " ^ » ther directions in whioh this i-A n m , u r nower are not needed* that the student a entx .* not mean v « tnat that he oug by fHa.t ™ "
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