372 BRAIN WORK AND 



matical faculties of the most eminent European 

 universities. When myself a student of the 

 mathematical faculty of the St. Petersburg 

 University, I had the opportunity of comparing 

 the knowledge of the students at the Moscow 

 Technical School with our own. I saw the courses 

 of higher geometry some of them had compiled 

 for the use of their comrades ; I admired the 

 facility with which they applied the integral 

 calculus to dynamical problems, and I came to 

 the conclusion that while we, University students, 

 had more knowledge of a general character (for 

 instance, in mathematical astronomy), they, the 

 students of the Technical School, were much 

 more advanced in higher geometry, and especially 

 in the applications of higher mathematics to the 

 intricate problems of dynamics, the theories of 

 heat and elasticity. But while we, the students 

 of the University, hardly knew the use of our 

 hands, the students of the Technical School 

 fabricated with their own hands, and without the 

 help of professional workmen, fine steam-engines, 

 from the heavy boiler to the last finely turned 

 screw, agricultural machinery, and scientific 

 apparatus all for the trade and they received 

 the highest awards for the work of their hands at 

 the international exhibitions. They were scienti- 

 fically educated skilled workers workers with 

 university education highly appreciated even 



