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lighting, and urban and interurban transportation. It must further be evident that the development of these various lines of industry and commerce called for the employment of men of constructive genius. How the

ordinary artisan with his necessarily limited education was not capable of performing the required tasks, and it became apparent that to successfully cope with all the various problems entailed it was necessary that men should be especially trained, and it was this, undoubtedly, which led to the development of the technical schools; schools which should furnish the means whereby the embryo engineer might form the foundation upon which to build his future success. Engineering, however, is not an exact science. Therefore, to be proficient an engineer must have in addition to his theoretical training the requisite amount of practice and experience. The training that an engineer

receives at a University is so broad that to a limited degree it enables him to commence the practice of almost any branch of his profession. But so very broad is the

field of Engineering and so keen the competition in every line that in order to excel, an engineer must choose a comparatively narrow field of activity. The progress of

the world is so rapid, the field of human achievement so complicated that a man must be unusually able in order to anywhere near keep step with the onward maroh of events.