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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 



