16 APRIL 1881, Page 3

Nevertheless, we are disposed to grumble at the University for

admitting amongst the subjects for which it confers a Science degree with honours so professional a subject as Engineering. Doubtless, the requisitions are, many of them, of the purely scientific kind, a large knowledge of pure mathematics and physics being demanded ; but the art of engineering, so far as it is .distinguieable from the sciences on which it is based, should hardly be made the subject of a test for a University degree at all. Will it not injure the true University conception that knowledge is to be valued as knowledge, and not chiefly for its uses, to give so prominent a place to a mere professional test P If that be allowable, why not specialise still further, and insti- tute a special honours degree in Sewage engineering P