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We have reached a point already in which we do not consider that a man should be appointed instructor in ohemiatry for example, who has not had at least equivalent advanced work corresponding to the requirements for a doctor's degree in chemistry. That means three years hard

study in chemistry as a specialty, in addition to the ordinary work of an "undergraduate course. We shall have made

a great advance in the effectiveness of teaching and the effectiveness of research and the effectiveness of higher work in engineering when we are in a position to say we will not appoint a man as instructor in the College of Engineering who has not, in addition to having completed to undergraduate course in engineering, also pursued for a period of from two to three years, advanced studies in some theoretical work in some one of the numerous "branches of oxiitino or i nfc« When we can do this we shall have solved very largely the question of securing an adequate supply of properly trained *nen for engineering professorships, and it is difficult to say how we can accomplish this end unless we can do some such thing as I have outlined. To the young men who are in this engineering course who are looking forward to work in the engineering field, I wish to urge upon your attention the fact that in the great field of teaching engineering or investigation tnxiuS§ field of engineering, there is an opportunity for