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in engineering should be, not a baohelor of arts who Is studying elementary engineering, but a student who holds a baooalaureate degree in engineering and who is going on to develop and expand and enlarge his engineering knowledge upon the basis of the work completed in the undergraduate course. This is the sense in whioh we use the term graduate work at the University of Illinois. It means advanced work, at any rate in regard to all those subjects which are ordinarly taught extensively in undergraduate courses. Now in the field of engineering we are just beginning to recognize the fact that the boy who has completed his ordinary undergraduate engineering course is only just ready to begin the serious, study of important branches of scientific engineering, and the University of Illinois in its graduate school is trying to develop courses which it will be worth the while of young men of more than ordinary ability *ho have completed the undergraduate course in engineering, to take up and pursue for one or two or three years in addition. This is an entirely new idea in engineering work, and not more than half a dozen institutions in the country have done anything worth while in this direction. We ahall have an unusual opportunity, owing to these enlarging facilities here at the University of Illinois, to advance this side of our work, so that we can turn out a number of men, evon though it be very small each year, who will be destined to make their mark in the theoretical aide