forth, from different points of view, the just claims of classical study; to the Commissioner and Acting Commissioner of Education in Washington for kind assistance not only in furnishing statistics yet unpublished but in submitting proofs of the statistical chapters to the criticism of an expert statistician; and to the generous donors to the fund which made the publication of the volume possible, Mr. D. M. Ferry, Jr., Mr. Frederick M. Alger, Mr. A. C. Bloomfield, Dr. J. B. Book, Mr. Lem W. Bowen, Mrs. Theodore D. Buhl, Mr. F. J. Hecker, Mr. J. L. Hudson, Mr. J. C. Hutchins, Mr. Clarence A. Lightner, Mr. Philip H. McMillan, Mr. W. H. Murphy, Mr. John R. Russel, Mr. Walter S. Russel, and Mr. Charles B. Warren. ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN FRANCIS W. KELSEY GEORGE W. PATTERSON, University of Michigan III. THE DEMANDS OF MODERN ENGINEERING IN THEIR BEARING UPON CHOICE OF PRELIMINARY STUDIES GARDNER S. WILLIAMS, University of Michigan |