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 high-class professors combine teaching and the practice of engineering. The courses of study have been so well tried out in the years gone by, and the number of men successfully educated at the schools is such a large per cent. of the whole that inferior instructors and assistant professors cannot do much harm when there is a real man at the head of the department. It is only when the head of the department is weak that the school suffers—this being true of any business.

Typical courses of engineering may be represented by the following, taken from the annual catalogue of the University of Illinois, Urbana, Ill. The figures following the subject indicate the number of recitation hours per week, each hour of recitation being assumed to require two hours of preparation. The university receives aid from the United States Government so a certain amount of military instruction is given. All engineering schools do not have military instruction.

Common to all courses.