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beneath the Universities to teach the apothecaries 

 it could not be degrading to establish a faculty of 

 engineering. 



We in England have taken a different course, and 

 instead of creating a duplicate system, have added on 

 to the usual University faculties of arts, science, law, 

 medicine and theology those demanded by modern 

 requirements, such as engineering in all its branches 

 mining and metallurgy, applied chemistry, applied 

 physics, including the numerous developments of elec- 

 tricity and optics, dyeing and textile working, and even 

 a faculty of brewing. The plan which we have adopted 

 appears to me to be preferable to that of the Germans, 

 for thus our newer universities and university colleges 

 have not only the advantage of representing the older 

 studies, but the still greater one of placing on the level 

 of academic culture subjects which hitherto have 

 failed to receive such treatment, although their im- 

 portance and their capability cannot be denied. 



But whilst the British universities have wisely 

 included these practical subjects within their walls, it 

 was clear that much more must be done to meet the 

 demand of technical education throughout the mass of 

 the population. Hence came the establishment of the 

 English polytechnics and municipal technical schools, 

 which serve the important purpose of educating the 

 craftsman and the foreman, and act as stepping-stones 

 to the higher and more complete education given in the 

 modern university. 



As a fitting close to the foregoing pages, I may now 

 shortly refer to one of the most interesting events of 

 my life the celebration of the Jubilee of my Heidel- 

 berg degree, taken on March 25th, 1854. In the early 

 spring of 1904 I learnt from my friend Dr. Thorpe 



