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Abstract

WE have reason to believe that the scheme for the proposed Indian Government School of Engineering is being warmly combated by the scientific branches of the army, whose counter proposal is that the Royal Military Academy at Woolwich should be made into an equivalent of the Ecole Polytechnique, and that young men intended for the engineering service of the Indian Government should be educated there, or better still, officers of the Royal Engineeers should be lent to the Indian Government. On this very important topic we would ask whether the result of the first report of the Royal Commission on Military Education, which is still sitting, has not been to reduce both in quantity and quality, the scientific teaching at Woolwich, which was already so absurdly small, that, mathematics apart, more science might be learned at many commercial academies.