Jun. 10.
IN no branch of modern progress has China advanced during the last twenty years more than in engineering, if we except, perhaps, medicine, The Chinese engineer has come to stay. He is a much criticized person, and the principal objection the up-to-date Modern: engineer offers against him is that he refuses to undergo the long and tedious period of training necessary in any branch engineering to-day: if he can become an engineer without soiling his hands or taking off his coat, he is quite willing' to pose having mastered engineering but ha objects to the toil and the dirty work. Much has been written at Home on the subject of the education of the engineer, and so far as we can. see the question as to which is. the "most efficient method of training appears to be as far from settlement as ever. There are so many variable factors which affect-the results that no system can be definitely allocate ed to the first place. Every system has produced both good and bad engineers. Some very successful men have received their training under conditions that Would be regarded as highly un-Satisfactory, So much depends upon the characteristics of the individual that it is impossible to be dogmatic. But in all the material we have'read on the subject of general education of the engineer, we have not been able to trace one clean royal road to efficiency every engineer, in every branch of engineering, has to go through the mill. In view of the great number of engineering Chinese students who have undergone training abroad, or are now study-
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