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According to the passage, the author mentioned that "when once the staff of the Historic American Engineering Record wished to have drawings made of machines and isometric views of industrial processes for its historical record of American engineering" in order to ______.

A．point out the inability of engineering students.
B．point out the omission of conventional engineering lessons.
C．praise the architectural schools.
D．encourage contests of such kind.

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