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and vice-presidents of corporations; others 

 are treasurers, and the balance are distrib- 

 uted throughout the whole system of in- 

 dustries of the country. One half of these 

 men are not above an average of 25 or 28 

 years of age, and ninety-five per cent, are 

 not above 35 or 37. Practically all retain 

 their connection with their profession. 

 They commonly realize and fully appre- 

 ciate their advantages, educationally. 



One writes, for example, 'The great 

 value of the training given me and espe- 

 cially by the college is brought home to 

 me forcibly many times every day and I 

 prize that training more than all the wealth 

 of the land.' 



The severe pruning out of men unsuited 

 to the profession has given these profes- 

 sional schools of engineering the reputa- 

 tion of producing the best-trained of all 

 professional men. 



More perhaps than in any other profes- 

 sion is it true that the practitioner, to be 

 successful — which means to be in highest 

 degree useful to the state— must possess a 

 peculiar mental and intellectual make-up. 

 He must unite— at least this is coming to 

 be true very generally if not universally 

 — he must unite that strength of character 

 which every leader must possess, with good 

 sense, such as all men commanding the 

 respect of their neighbors must exhibit, 

 with integrity such as no man can advance 

 without, with thorough professional educa- 

 tion and training such as is always essen- 

 tial to professional success. It is further 

 true that the intellectual training of the 

 engineer, for example, furnishes as large 

 opportunity and as great capacity for pure- 

 ly intellectual enjoyment as can possibly 

 any ordinary purely 'cultural' education. 

 Nevertheless, the preparation of the en- 

 gineer for greatest fulness of life demands 

 cultural study and an extent of learning 

 far broader and deeper than the solely pro- 



fessional. He, like all other men, must 

 for highest results make himself a liberally 

 educated man and must attain wisdom as 

 well as culture, leai'ning as well as tech- 

 nical knowledge, if he is to meet men 

 on a common and lofty ground. It is not 

 enough that he shall make of himself a 

 most efficient machine; he must make of 

 himself a gentleman and a scholar as well 

 as a professional. 



The outlook for the young man going 

 out into business of whatever sort from a 

 course of study which has comprehended 

 the elements of a good, sound, English 

 education, college courses which have given 

 him some familiarity with the contem- 

 porary literatures and access to the lan- 

 guages in which the thoughts of the masters 

 in his field are immortalized and the prac- 

 tice of his art is exemplified, and from a 

 technical training, a professional appren- 

 ticeship, which has built up for him foun- 

 dations, firm and stable, upon which to 

 raise the structure of his later professional 

 career : the outlook for such a man, if him- 

 self well fitted by talent, character and 

 experience to profit by his advantages and 

 opportunities, is now more promising than 

 ever before in the history of the world. 

 The tremendous aggregations of industrial 

 enterprises now coming into form can only 

 be handled by men of more than ordinary 

 capacity, wisdom and experience and only 

 the complete union of the learning of the 

 schools, the judgment gained by experience 

 and the intimate knowledge of the business 

 acquired by the practice of the profession 

 or the vocation, all conspiring with perfect 

 union of the science with the art, will here- 

 after give highest efficiency in positions of 

 responsibility. The army of industry is 

 now organized and must be officered. Its 

 grades are coming to be as distinctly recog- 

 nized and established as those of the mili- 

 tary or the naval organization, and the 



