48 THE RELATION OF UNIVERSITIES TO 
technical studies in our universities. It is there that they will 
find not only abundant springs of intellectual nourishment, but 
also the influences that will keep them expansive and whole- 
some. It is there that they will bring a much-needed bond 
with a vast section of the working world, and help to keep in 
check extravagances which are the opposite of their own. 
It is, of course, not suggested that each university should 
attempt to cope with the whole range of professional and 
technical studies. Among them they may cover the whole 
field, each university addressing itself to the particular studies 
which local or other conditions determine as appropriate. This 
division of labour, accompanied by freedom of interchange of 
students between universities, would greatly promote both 
economy and efficiency, and would prevent any undesirable 
predominance of technical and professional studies in a single 
institution. 
The policy which I have advocated in this paper has been 
fully embraced by the university with which I am con- 
nected, and, in conclusion, it may be of interest if I refer to 
some questions of detail in connexion with it, which have 
forced themselves on my attention. 
I have alluded in an earlier part of this paper to the existenne 
of a number of associations representative of various profes- 
sions and industries, which have among their objects the 
regulation of the training and the intellectual standards which 
are deemed essential for their several callings. It seems highly 
desirable that the interest and the experience of such associa- 
tions should be brought in to aid the universities in the 
organization and control of those departments which are 
concerned with technical studies. There seems no more reason, 
for example, why, ina subject like Engineering, the organized 
bodies of the profession should not participate just as much in 
the regulation of university studies of that subject as the medical 
profession does in effect in the study of medicine. And the 
