The Royal Indian Engineering College

Abstract

IT is evident from the letters and comments which have appeared in the Times and other papers, that the osummary notice of dismissal of a large part of the scientific staff of the Royal Indian Engineering College, Coopers Hill, is regarded as an act of injustice which, if permitted to take effect, would be distinctly detrimental to the interests of science. The facts of the case were stated in these columns last week, and an examination of othem is sufficient to convince any one that the seven gentlemen who have received notice that their services will not be required after the end of the Easter term have been treated with little courtesy and no consideration. That it should be possible for men of scientific eminence to be dismissed from their posts more easily than if they were civil service messengers or clerks, is one of the many indications we have of the small value attached by the official mind to scientific work and distinction. Perhaps Lord Kelvin's letter, which we reprint below from the Times, will show that the matter is not to be permitted to rest in its present unsatisfactory position.