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 than six years in length, and will combine the schools, the shop and the topical study and discussion.

The engineering course of the future will not all be given in the engineering schools. Since fully 90 per cent. of the men employed in engineering work do not require the complete education the engineer should have, much Of the work Of preparing the large majority can be done in the high schools. Two years can readily be added to the courses in the high schools, so that boys wanting to go into technical work may be specially trained. In the additional two years can be given all the algebra, trigonometry and analytical geometry now given in the technical school. The high school, in the additional two years should also give descriptive geometry and drawing, the drawing course being so arranged that finished draftsmen, not designers, may be turned out fit to do the ordinary work in the offices of engineers, architects and manufacturers, such work as the younger men arc given. The high school can also give as much chemistry and physics as the average engineering school now gives. The use of surveying instruments and the elements of land surveying can also be taught in the high school. The shop work of the average engineering school, which is generally an advertising feature of ridiculously little practical use, can be given in the high school. This additional work on the part