Word: polytechnica
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Engineering training upon the North American Continent first took root in institutions that were not connected with established universities and that were patterned after Continental European example with recognition of the fact that these European institutions are superimposed upon a very different system of secondary education. These polytechnica or institutes of technology and their younger relatives, the undergraduate schools of engineering, nevertheless have flourished and have served the country well in advancing its frontiers of industry. What their students have lacked in educational background these institutions have tried to fill by the introduction of general studies normal to the college...