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 engineer is generally meant. To do the man justice it is fair to say that he is a shining success as a teacher. Rankine, however, the greatest professor of engineering, was a practising engineer for years and resigned as chief engineer of a railway to become a professor.

From the school which graduated "Kitty" another man of the same age graduated a year or two earlier. He made friends on every piece of work on which he was employed. In the office and in the field he seemed to be equally at home. When he was laid off it was because the job had ended and all his past employers praise him highly, except one, who was a pretentious man of small parts on whose pet hobbies the better educated young man, pardonably bumptious because of his youth, stepped rather hard a few times. After several years of successful work he applied to his Alma Mater for the professional degree. It had so happened that opportunity had, as yet, thrown no important work his way, his positions having all been minor ones as assistant. He made good, however, and is a graduate of whom a school should feel well satisfied. He will do big things some day when the opportunity comes, for it is in him. His request for the professional degree was not granted "because his ability to do original work is not proven and the work he has so far been engaged upon has been in minor positions carrying little responsibility." The reasons for declining to give