XXIV. S. H. BARRACLOUGH. 



adapted to the soil, bravely modern and industrial without 

 ceasing to be ancient and classical, or philosophical and 

 historical." 



Before leaving this subject, there are two policies 

 pursued by the authorities at Sibley College which must 

 commend themselves to every engineer, and which I per- 

 sonally trust it may be possible some day to embody in our 

 own University. They are two policies which aim at 

 keeping the engineering department in close and intimate 

 touch with the actual practice of the profession outside. 



The first is, to have each year a carefully organised set of 

 lectures delivered by experts in the different branches of 

 the profession to the students attending the regular college 

 courses. This practice has the double advantage of enabling 

 the experts in the profession to obtain a sympathetic insight 

 from time to time into the organisation and working of the 

 school on the one hand, and on the other hand it allows 

 the students to become acquainted, at least by sight and 

 voice, with the leaders of the profession which they aspire 

 to enter. The second policy, which has recently been 

 brought into force, is to insist upon the necessity of pro- 

 fessors and lecturers keeping in active touch with the 

 practice of their profession, and for this purpose leave of 

 absence is to be granted at fairly short intervals, for a year 

 or even two years to the members of the staff for the pur- 

 pose of enabling them to resume for a time their profess- 

 ional practice. 



One of the chief competitors of the Sibley College as a 

 place of training for engineers is the Massachusetts Insti- 

 tute of Technology in Boston, and it is worthy of note that 

 this institution during the last few months has become 

 amalgamated with the Applied Science Department of 

 Harvard University, the ultimate aim doubtless being to 

 attach the great school of engineering and technology, 



