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r I 111 IS Department, which was established in 1891, has at its head Profes-X sor F. Paul Anderson, better known as "Little Paul," who has been untiring in his efforts to make it the foremost in the College. And so well has he succeeded in bringing it to the front that it now ranks as one of the best schools of its kind in the country, although it has been somewhat slighted in the division of the money appropriated to the College, almost all of it being given to the other Departments, notably the Classical, and only a small portion finding its way into the coffers of the "Chief of Boiler Greasers." Yet, notwithstanding its penury, it has gradually increased its facilities until it now holds a fairly respectable position among the Departments of the College, occupying practically all of one building, from which it has almost entirely ejected its co-occupants, the Civil Engineers.
When the wisdom-seeking youth, fresh from the glories of his high school victories, enters the Freshman class of this far-famed school of practical engineering, he is put to work in the wood-shop. Think of ita wood-shop fitting place for one who has come on a royal quest for learning! Here through the weary hours of a whole long year he works and toils, ever advancing, ever progressing, until he has reached that acme of a Freshman's desiresthe skill of a first-rate carpenter.
But lo and behold! when he has satisfied his instructor that he knows pretty much everything about the joiner's art, and has now doffed the squalid garments of Freshman incipience to don the princely garb of sophomoric wisdom, he finds that he has freed himself from the drudgeries of the wood-shop only to encounter the still more servile labors of the toiling blacksmith and to pass the .fleeting hours of the pleasant autumn clay 'mid the ringing of the hammers as they resound upon the oft-struck anvil.   After he has reached such
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