Professor Smith stated that it was his intention to speak rather upon the general problem than upon any details. He stated that the problem of the industrial mathematics was a new one in all new countries, but an old one in the older civilizations. The reason why the problem is new here is that a country like ours tends to consider the individual more than the state, whereas in various older countries the opposite is the case. All types of vocational training have been thought to arrest the development of the individual, and this has actually been the case in certain types of schools in Europe.