June 4, 1909] 



SCIENCE 



887 



And there are other qualities that make 

 for leadership : tact— the combination of 

 good judgment with good taste in dealing 

 with others; self-eontidence without self- 

 conceit; a personality that attracts men, 

 wins their confidence, holds their loyalty. 

 It is qualities such as these that make the 

 leader of men. It is such choice qualities 

 as these that the atmosphere of our univer- 

 sities ought to develop in their students. 

 "Was it not with such high ends in view that 

 our universities were founded? 



Tour splendid new building has higher 

 purposes than a mere mill. You will not 

 rate its success in dollars and cents of 

 annual profit. And I want to protest 

 against the too common standard by which 

 we rate the success of men. You tell me 

 that this graduate holds a $25,000 position, 

 that another owns a rich copper mine and 

 a third is president of a colossal trust. 

 Have they achieved success ? Very likely ; 

 but why not apply to them the same stand- 

 ard that we apply to your university 1 



The true measure of success, alike for the 

 university and for its graduates, is the test 

 of public service. 



I know an engineer who has through long 

 years guided the destinies of a great city, 

 saved to its taxpayers untold millions of 

 dollars, fostered its development in a way 

 that will benefit generations yet unborn. 



I know an engineer who dared to risk 

 his professional reputation and his life to 

 uncover fraud upon the commonwealth and 

 to punish the guilty. 



I know an engineer who has turned a 

 barren desert into fruitful farms, has made 

 possible prosperity and happiness to thou- 

 sands and tens of thousands. 



It is true that the public seldom appre- 

 ciates the value of such services as these, 

 and those who render such service often 

 receive only meager reward; and yet I tell 

 you that it is achievements like these that 

 best deserve the name of success. 



Shall we not then dedicate your new 

 building to the culture of such high ideals ? 

 Within its walls may all noble traditions, 

 all honoraol^ standards, be fostered and 

 upheld. May those who go forth from its 

 infiuences carry with them a rich spirit of 

 loyalty — loyalty to the public welfare, loy- 

 alty to their city, their commonwealth, their 

 country. So will they justify those who 

 to-day dedicate this building to public 

 service. 



Charles Whiting Bakee 



THE NEW COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING, AN 

 OPPORTUNITY ^ 



A GREAT opportunity is before us. 

 Through the generosity of Mrs. G. F. 

 Swift and Mr. Edward F. Swift an excel- 

 lent building for the new College of Engi- 

 neering has been erected and its mainte- 

 nance provided for. The board of trustees 

 has determined to furnish the necessary 

 funds to develop the new college. It will 

 start with all the advantages, and they are 

 many and not easily measured, of being a 

 new department of an old and prosperous 

 university, rather than a new, separate 

 organization. Those persons at North- 

 western who have fostered for years the 

 idea that engineering should be taught at 

 this university have had high ideals for the 

 new college which have already helped it. 

 The position of the new College of Engi- 

 neering, within easy reach of one of the 

 greatest centers of commerce and industry 

 in the world, will furnish its students and 

 professors unusual opportunities to keep 

 in touch with the practising engineer. The 

 new College of Engineering is being started 

 at a time when the methods of engineering 

 education are rapidly changing and devel- 

 oping. This is, therefore, an opportune 

 time for it, if properly guided, to take and 



^Address delivered at the dedication of the new 

 College of Engineering of Northwestern Univer- 

 sity by the director-elect. 



