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 may be able to secure from his parents Oli guardians. By giving up the idea of studying engineering the man not perfectly adapted to the work will help the profession by enabling thousands of illy-paid, highly educated men to get better pay and steadier employment, besides giving them more zest in the doing of their work.

While the regular method above outlined is the very best, there exist splendid opportunities for the men who missed their chance earlier in life. For such men good courses of instruction are given by some reputable correspondence schools, evening classes in the Y. M. C. A., evening classes, in high-grade technical schools, and in a few private schools giving individual instruction. Young fellows who can afford the time to go to college and study engineering in the proper manner have no place in these schools intended solely for men who missed early chances and now want instruction in special subjects. The man who works by day and studies in odd moments cannot possibly cover properly the broad and comprehensive schedule of studies provided by specialists in engineering teaching for young fellows whose sole object, when under their instruction, is to prepare for their life work.

The man studying under the severe handicaps incident to earning a living is apt to be hyper-critical and has neither the patience, nor the time, to take up any study from which he sees no hope