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that the country possesses, and the inducements of salary and facil- 

 ities for investigation that are provided should be such that no 

 technical instructor could afford to refuse an offer of a professor- 

 ship in this school. 



Every modern apparatus .needed for either instruction or orig- 

 inal investigation should be furnished; and arrangements should 

 be made for providing means to carry out all important technical 

 investigations. 



It should be the duty of the regular faculty to make a special 

 study of engineering literature for the benefit of the profession; 

 to prepare annual indices thereof; to put into book form the gist 

 of all technical writings in the Transactions of the various engin- 

 eering societies and in the technical press that are worthy of being 

 preserved and recorded in this way, so that students and engineers 

 shall be able to search in books for all the data they need instead 

 of in the back files of periodicals; to translate or assist in the trans- 

 lation of all engineering books in foreign languages, which, in the 

 opinion of competent experts, would prove useful to engineers or 

 to the students of the school; and to edit and publish a periodical 

 for the recording of the results of all investigations of value made 

 under the auspices of the institution. 



In respect to what might be accomplished by such a post-grad- 

 uate school of engineering the following quotation is made from 

 the pamphlet containing the address in which the project was 

 advanced : 1 



"The advantages to be gained by attendance at such a post- 

 graduate school as the one advocated are almost beyond expres- 

 sion. A degree from such a school would always insure rapid suc- 

 cess for its recipient. Possibly for two or three years after taking 

 it a young engineer would have less earning capacity than his class- 

 mates of equal ability from the lower technical school, who had 

 gone directly into actual practice. However, in five years he cer- 

 tainly would have surpassed them, and in less than ten years he 

 would be a recognized authority, while the majority of the others 

 would be forming the rank and file of the profession, with none 

 of them approaching at all closely in reputation the more highly 

 educated engineer. 



"But if the advantages of the proposed school to the individual 

 are so great, how much greater would be its advantages to the 

 engineering profession and to the entire nation. After a few years 

 of its existence there would be scattered throughout the country 

 a number of engineers more highly trained in the arts and sciences 

 than any technical men who have ever lived; and it certainly 



1 Higher Education for Civil Engineers : an Address to the Engineering Society 

 of the University of Nebraska, April 8, 1904, by J. A. L. Waddell, D.Sc., LL.D. 



