way of approach. If it had not been reached by this particular individual it is assumed that it might never have been known. An engineering solution is supposed, and rightly, to have been reached by logical processes, through known laws of matter, and force, and motion, so that another engineer, given the same problem, would probably have reached the same or an equivalent result. And this is not patentable. Already a very large proportion of the patents issued could be nullified on this ground if the attorneys only knew enough to make their case. More and more, therefore, are the men of your class to be charged with the responsibility and to be credited with the honor of the world's progress, and more and more is the world's work to be placed under your direction. The world will be remade by every succeeding generation, and all by the technically educated class. These are your responsibilities and your honors. The tasks are great and great will be your rewards. That you may fitly prepare yourself for them is the hope and trust of your teachers in this college of engineering.

I will close this address by quoting Professor Huxley's definition of a liberal education. Says Huxley, "That man, I think, has had a liberal education, who has been so trained in youth that his body is the ready servant of his will, and does with ease and pleasure all the work that, as a mechanism, it is capable of; whose intellect is a clear, cold, logic-engine, with all its parts of equal strength, and in smooth working order; ready, like a steam engine, to be turned to any kind of work, and spin the gossamers as well as forge the anchors of the mind; whose mind is stored with a knowledge of the great and fundamental truths of Nature and of the laws of her operations; one who, no stunted ascetic, is full of life and fire, but whose passions are trained

A POISONOUS PHRASE 1

By PRESIDENT WILLIAM DEWITT HYDE

Bowdoin College

IN warfare we have ceased poisoning wells, and, if Dr. Wiley has his way, we shall not much longer poison food. Yet we still allow phrases to pass current among us which are more deadly than saccharine and copper sulphate, malaria and typhoid fever. For a whole unconscious philosophy of life may be wrapped up in a phrase; as in the case cited in Dean Briggs' Girls and Education of the man whose salutation was not, "How do you do?" but, "How do you stand it?"

Sometimes these phrases are wholesome and therapeutic. In the rich soil of student conversation, however, weeds grow more profusely and rankly than flowers and vegetables. About a decade ago there sprang up a noxious weed, responsible for much loafing among the well-to-do "C is a gentleman's grade." President Lowell, soon after his inauguration, dealt that phrase its death-blow. A student whom he asked how he was getting on replied, "Pretty well; I'm getting gentleman's grade." "Oh," said President Lowell, "you are getting A or E. A gentleman either does his best, or doesn't pretend to do anything."

A phrase just now thrusting itself into academic use sets

1 Reprinted from The Outlook of May 18, 1912, by special permission of the author and the publishers.

to come to heel by a vigorous will, the servant of a tender conscience; who has learned to love all beauty, whether of Nature or of art, to hate all vileness, and to respect others as himself. Such an one and no other, I conceive, has had a liberal education; for he is, as completely as a man can be, in harmony with Nature. He will make the best of her, and she of him. They will get on together rarely; she as his ever-beneficent mother; he as her mouthpiece, her conscious self, her minister and interpreter."

A POISONOUS PHRASE1

BY PRESIDENT WILLIAM DEWITT HYDE

Bowdoin College

IN warfare we have ceased poisoning wells, and, if Dr. Wiley has his way, we shall not much longer poison food. Yet we still allow phrases to pass current among us which are more deadly than saccharine and copper sulphate, malaria and typhoid fever. For a whole unconscious philosophy of life may be wrapped up in a phrase; as in the case cited in Dean Briggs' Girls and Education of the man whose salutation was not, "How do you do?" but, "How do you stand it?"

Sometimes these phrases are wholesome and therapeutic. In the rich soil of student conversation, however, weeds grow more profusely and rankly than flowers and vegetables. About a decade ago there sprang up a noxious weed, responsible for much loafing among the well-to-do - "C is a gentleman's grade." President Lowell, soon after his inauguration, dealt that phrase its death-blow. A student whom he asked how he was getting on replied, "Pretty well; I'm getting gentleman's grade." "Oh," said President Lowell, "you are getting A or E. A gentleman either does his best, or doesn't pretend to do anything."

A phrase just now thrusting itself into academic use sets

1 Reprinted from The Outlook of May 18, 1912, by special permission of the author and the publishers.