you for the following reasons:



     Professor F. Paul Anderson, in my mind, is one of the
greatest engineers in the country. He has indomitable energy
and great executive ability; his college nas long been a
model of excellence and reflects great credit upon the insti-
tution of which he is a part. Under Professor Anderson's
administration, these schools will go forward with great energy
and the students will all be benefited by the change. The
consolidation will not only increase the efficiency of the
institution, but will increase the economy of administration,
and will give a great deal more room in the engineering de-
partment than it has had heretofore. To illustrate, the
College of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering has nearly
double as many students as the other two combined. Each of
the others has better buildings and more room than the College
of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering. By the consolidation
all of this space can be utilized in an economical way and will,
in my opinion, save the cost of erection of a new building for
Professor Anderson's college.

     In this progressive age of industrial achievements, it
is very necessary that every engineer, regardless of the parti-
cular field that he undertakes, should have comprehensive
training in shop practice. At the present time, only the
mining and mechanical engineers take shop work at the Univer-
sity of Kentucky. Civil engineers do not take it. The civil
engineer's work at the present time is largely a mechanical
process; bridges are manufactured and the civil engineer who
takes up bridge design should be a good shop man. Dredging
machinery, pile driving machinery, all structural work, can
only be handled intelligently by men who know shop methods.
There is scarcely a field of endeavor, outside of the mere
routine of surveying, that the civil engineer does not need
shop experience as a basis of leadership.

     The students of the University; in engineering, should
have a two-year fundamental course in drawing, mathematics,
physics and chemistry. This will give an opportunity for
young men to determine as to just what field of specialized
engineering they prefer to enter and time will be given for
young men to decide what special course of study will be
taken during the junior and senior years.

     By having all the engineering courses together, a
harmonious engineering atmosphere can be created, where
the interest of every student who is taking engineering will
be identical. All the students can have the advantages of
non-resident engineering lectures which are, up to the present
time, very largely denied civil engineers for very little
attempt has been mode to bring to the University, eminent
engineers to address engineering students.

     What applies to shon practice, applies to machinedesign
and the knowledge of electrical and steam machinery. No
civil engineer is adequately trained who does not have a
fundamental training in these subjects.