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 wanted as it was believed the profits would enable the work to be done over in a few years if necessary. The differences, therefore, between the engineers of the different countries were not due wholly to the training received in schools, but were due primarily to environment, heredity, custom and habit.

To-day engineers in all countries read and study papers and books written by men in other countries. Translators are busy everywhere so that each week the up-to-date engineer receives by mail a paper containing an account of everything of value to him in his own and other countries. The schools are gradually getting together and there is very little difference between first-class schools, whether they are in England, Germany, France, Belgium, Sweden, Italy, Austria, Russia, Japan, Argentine or in the United States. Tn all will be found the leading works of the leading instructors in all countries and Rankine's works have been translated into many languages and have formed the basis of hundreds of standard text books.

Considerable criticism of engineering schools is heard. "What is the trouble with our engineering schools?" is a cry frequently heard, but if there in any trouble it is farther back and the cry should be "What is the trouble of our engineering schools?" The answer being "The false ideals and the lack of consistency and coordination in the