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not. This association is an inspiration to 

 a broader and more enthusiastic view of 

 his own work in itself as well as a material 

 enhancement of value of that work by dis- 

 closing its relations to other fields of learn- 

 ing, all impossible to attain outside of the 

 university. These conditions give his edu- 

 cational training qualities that not only 

 strengthen them and widen his subsequent 

 professional practise but contribute most 

 effectively to his intelligence and useful- 

 ness as an educated citizen. 



More than this, the technical professions 

 now demand of their members for the 

 higher planes of successful practise the 

 same general educational preparation for 

 professional study as that required by the 

 best law and medical schools. Without 

 entering into a discussion as to the relative 

 merits of the educational work done by the 

 small college and by that forming a sub- 

 ordinate member of the university, it is 

 sufficient to say that this part of a well- 

 rounded course of professional study har- 

 monizes completely with the university sys- 

 tem and is in fact an essential element 

 of it. 



Both for technical efficiency, therefore, 

 and for the broadest and best educational 

 motives the teehnical school is bound to 

 find its strongest development in an en- 

 vironment of universal study and investi- 

 gation. 



The university has long since lost the 

 character, if it ever properly had it, of a 

 place were abstractions of learning, sepa- 

 rated from the things which only give them 

 life, are to be dispensed after the manner 

 of instruction to men who are never to 

 deal with the affairs of life. It has come 

 to be an intensely practical working agent. 

 It is effective and worthy of support only 

 in so far as it makes itself felt in the real 

 life of the community. If it is to be a 

 true and real center of instruction it is 

 imperative that it shall carry knowledge 



into every useful calling, governmental, 

 corporate or private. The time will soon 

 come, if indeed it is not already reached, 

 when it only can prepare men to administer 

 and extend in a rational and moral way 

 the great industrial activities which at the 

 present time form the foundation of the 

 material prosperity of the modern world. 



The true student of the professional or 

 technical school becomes heir to a compre- 

 hensive and clear understanding of his 

 duties and responsibilities in his relations 

 to his fellow men and to the conmiunity. 

 Those duties and responsibilities present 

 themselves to his trained mind in their real 

 proportion. He is neither non-developed 

 nor mal-developed in his judgment of 

 affairs. His university training, especially 

 in the technical school, has taught him ac- 

 curacy and penetration in the analysis of 

 any proposition confronting him,' and that 

 truth and knowledge must be sought with 

 the directness of a plumb line. Science 

 yields nothing but confusion to the shifty, 

 devious and dishonest inquirer. The 

 fundamentals of morality are the very 

 stepping stones to technical success or pro- 

 fessional attainment. 



The opportunities offered in the admin- 

 istration of public affairs and the great 

 corporate interests of the present time, 

 rapidly increasing in number and magni- 

 tude, create almost irresistible tempta- 

 tions to prostitute them to selfish gain. 

 The realization that great power, or what 

 has noAV come to be its full equivalent, 

 great wealth, is a grave and delicate trust, 

 to which selfish gratification in its infinite 

 and seductive variety is abhorrent, comes 

 most naturally and easily through sound 

 knowledge 'the beginning of wisdom.' 



The correct conception of his duties 

 gives to the professional man such a deep 

 and true sense of his responsibilities as to 

 render him the safest administrator of 

 those great interests whose sinister power 



