0 WATERLOO COLLEGE AND ASSOCIATE FACULTIES "Canada is living in a highly competitive world in which the pace of growth and development depends largely on the ability to use the fruits of scientific research, technological improvement and advanced mechanization. In such a world the abilities of scientists, engineers, administrators, and skilled people of all kinds are being called increasingly into play." REPORT OF THE ROYAL COMMISSION ON CANADA'S ECONOMIC PROSPECTS harnessing new ideas Throughout the worlds of business and industry, the harnessing of new ideas constitutes an important, indeed an essential, part of progress. In large measure, it is upon the practical application of new ideas that the Arts Building of Waterloo College well being of our society and the future prosperity of our economy depend. Ideas and their application are equally important in education -- if education at all levels of endeavor is to achieve its purposes in our social and economic structure. Increasingly, in an era of growth, Canada's colleges and universities are being called upon to help fill the nation's manpower needs : to prepare young men and women for the responsibilities of leadership and to train them in the skills of the sciences and professions. In Canada today, education cannot afford to remain static.