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Every senior student must prepare a thesis to defend his right to receive a degree in engineering. Modern thesis work generally is of a research nature. The time given above to thesis work represents the time given by the instructional staff in assisting the students in this work. The seminary item refers to the time devoted by the dean of the school in leading topical discussions on articles appearing in technical papers, thus making the boys ready against the time when they will leave school and must thereafter depend upon themselves in hunting up authorities, etc. If a technical school does nothing more than guide a student in the selection of and inspire a discriminating taste for good technical literature it accomplishes much, as was recently said by the editor of Engineering News.