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tread the higher walks of the engineering 

 profession he must be qualified to investi- 

 gate new problems in engineering and de- 

 vise methods for their solution and for 

 such work a knowledge of the logical proc- 

 esses of the pure scientist and his rigorous 

 methods of analyzing and weighing evi- 

 dence in his scrupulous search for the 

 truth will be of the greatest value. 



Furthermore, the engineering student 

 should be taught to appreciate the ultimate 

 great practical importance of the results 

 of pure scientific investigation and to real- 

 ize that pure science furnishes to engineer- 

 ing the raw material, so to speak, which he 

 must work into useful forms. He should be 

 taught that after graduation it will be 

 most helpful to him and even necessary, if 

 he is to be a leader, to watch with care the 

 work of the pure scientist and to scrutinize 

 the reports of new scientific discoveries to 

 see what they may contain that can be ap- 

 plied to useful purposes and more particu- 

 larly to problems of his own which require 

 solution. There are many unsolved prob- 

 lems in applied science, to-day, which are 

 insoluble in the present state of our knowl- 

 edge, but I am sure that in the future, as 

 has so often happened in the past, these 

 problems will find a ready solution in the 

 light of pure scientific discoveries yet to be 

 made. When thus regarded the work of 

 the pure scientist should be followed with 

 most intense interest by all of those en- 

 gaged in the application of science to in- 

 dustrial purposes. Acquaintance, there- 

 fore with the pure scientist, with his meth- 

 ods and results, is of great importance to 

 the student of applied science. I believe 

 that there is need of a better understand- 



