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50 THE RELATION OF UNIVERSITIES TO 
point of view of the man who is limited on every side by industrial 
and commercial conditions, it is no less essential that he should 
/ be as much an enthusiastic lover of knowledge and an eager 
seeker of new truth as any other teacher. The qualifications 
of an ideal university teacher of applied science are, indeed, more 
complex than those of any other class; and having regard to the 
temptations by which such a man is beset to commit himself 
wholly to an industrial career, it must be regarded as a stroke of 
good fortune when he is secured to a university. But when 
the right teacher is found, he may be trusted to maintain the 
intellectual prestige of his subject, to keep it in every way 
worthy of its place in the university, and to be scrupulous in 
regard to his own professional relations with the calling in 
which he is an expert. | 
The creation of faculties within a university seems to be 
almost inevitable for various purposes of administration, but it 
is well known to be attended by certain risks. There is a 
tendency in the deliberations of a faculty, for questions to be 
- viewed too much from a single standpoint, and it is not easy, 
when a united opinion has been formed in this way, to avoid 
a certain amount of friction when the same question intimately 
concerns two separate faculties. For such reasons there is much 
to be said for maintaining applied science in close association 
with pure science. A fusion of the two faculties for all delibera- 
tive purposes has seemed, in my own experience, to be of the 
utmost advantage. 
With regard to the question of degrees embodying applied 
science and the curricula related thereto, there is no doubt 
a good deal of difference of opinion. I am, for my own part, 
strongly averse to the multiplication of degrees, and cannot 
help regretting that so much differentiation has already taken 
» place. It seems much more important that a degree should 
mark a state of maturity rather than a special kind of pro- 
ficiency, and I have a fear that great variety in the names of 
