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from taking degrees, and this might seem a hardship if degrees are 

 really of any value. This difficulty has been overcome at Stanford 

 University by allowing a man who has entered as a special student 

 to graduate by making a total of one hundred and fifty hours; 

 that is by taking an extra year's work. This is of course simply 

 making a man with defective entrance training take a five years' 

 course for a degree. 



After the technical school has done its full duty by a young man 

 his education is only begun; he must spend years in contact with 

 practice before he can attain that ripeness of judgment which will 

 enable him to say of engineering schemes, this is right and that is 

 wrong; before he can reach his full power as an engineer. 



SHORT PAPERS 



MR. H. L. GANTT, of Providence, Rhode Island, contributed a paper to this 

 Section on the " Application of Scientific Methods to the Economic Utilization of 

 Labor." 



PROFESSOR JAMES E. DENTON, of Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, 

 New Jersey, read a paper on " The Best Economy of the Piston Steam Engine at 

 the Advent of the Steam Turbine." 



