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 fessors in the foundation studies should receive the highest pay and take charge of the students from the day they enter college. The graduate requires his mathematics during the last two years of school and during the three years immediately following graduation. The higher engineering problems, for which he is most carefully trained by the highest paid men in school, are things he cannot hope to approach for many years after graduation, for the outside world deems considerable experience is first necessary. When ready finally to take up such problems there should be no difficulty in reading up and studying the matter, for on such projects one is seldom unduly hurried. It is really in the fundamentals, the tools of his work, he should be best trained.

Require not less than two years' practical experience before appointing a man an instructor and also require recommendations from his employers, to insure getting an intelligent man. Do not select as an instructor a graduate of the institution. No man should be appointed an assistant professor until he has been an instructor at least five years, and in the case of an assistant professor there is no objection to taking a graduate of the institution, providing he has had not less than two years' practical work, and has taught in another engineering school not less than five years. This will do away with "inbreeding" and should keep men alive.