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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, tach 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 existence 

 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, in a 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 



