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they give their entire time, thought, and energy, to effective teaohing in the school itself and the flevelopraent of the subject. They will thus be able to render the largest publio service to the people of the commonwealth. Friends, if we could organize an engineering faculty on that basis, we should have something so supremely excellent as compared to anything achieved up to the present, at work in the field of engineering education, that the whole commonwealth, when it came to realize the fact, would rise up and call us blessed, instead, as many of them do, of rising up and cursing us for the supposed extravagant expenditures connected with this great enterprise. Let us dwell on this for a moment. It is seldom I get an opportunity to talk to a committee like this. Seldom I get a chance to talk to practical men on engineering education. They won't listen to us. But I am going to use this opportunity to say two or three things to them which I should be glad if they would carry forth to their friends. The development of a great engineering school and of a great university like this is of course largely a question of ideal, and idea, and oonception in the public mind as to what a university should be. Now if we are going to secure for a university career in the next generation the ability which we ought to have, such ability as we have represented here on this platform in the practical work, we must offer larger aalaries * If we are going to
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