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be kept all day at drawing or mathematica, or thermo-dypamies, or physics, or electricity, or what not, but that his time should be devoted to the mastery of the combinations of things which enter into the curriculum. Furthermore, a boy who knows how to react to his environment has acquired an experience in his four years of college life whioh will be of immense advantage to him in meeting and handling and dealing with the men with whom he may come in contact in subsequent years. So much for the general underlying principles of the curriculum. Now a word for the professor himself. I believe myself that no man ought to be in a university faculty, that no man ought to be a professor in a department representing an important subject of instruction, who isn't himself doing something in a positive kay for the advancement of the theoretical side of his subject. Tn other words, who isn't adding to our scientific knowledge, and who isn't adding to the valuable literature bf"his profession. The "university professor should be writing the practical handbooks; should be making theoretical contributions to the science of engineering, using that terra in the largest sense; and no man ought to be on i university staff who isn't doing that kind of thing* If any particular department, like civil engineering for example, has all its scientific problems solved, [hen It ouKht by all means to be taken out of the university 148
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