EVENING DISCOURSES. 
FIRST EVENING DISCOURSE 
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 1935. 
DIESEL ENGINES IN RELATION TO 
COASTWISE SHIPPING 
BY 
DR. S. J. DAVIES. 
This Discourse has been published, complete with illustrations, in 
Engineering, 140, 3642, p. 486, Nov. 1 (1935) ; ibid., 140, 3644, Nov. 15 
(1935) ; tbid., 140, 3646, Nov. 22 (1935). 
SECOND EVENING DISCOURSE 
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER I0, 1935. 
eee ALP OF PSYCHOLOGY. INTHE 
CHOICE OF A CAREER 
BY 
! DRC: 'S. “MYERS; C.B-E)/oFLRS. 
_I HOPE this evening to be able to indicate to you the valuable help which 
Psychology can render in the choice of a career. But before I attempt to 
do so, it seems to me desirable to spend a few minutes in considering whether 
_ any help is necessary for the young person choosing his career. For, strange 
though it may appear to many of you, there are people who, on various 
grounds of general principles, feel opposed to vocational guidance. Some 
of them maintain that it is really a good thing to let young persons discover 
for themselves their most suitable occupation by the ‘ rough-and-tumble ’ 
process of repeated trial and failure. Others urge that most young persons 
show no special ‘ bent’ for any particular career, but are endowed with the 
ability to adapt themselves equally well to a wide variety of occupations. 
Others, again, question the value of vocational advice in these days of diffi- 
cult employment when so often the young person must needs accept the very 
first vacancy which he is offered—whatever be the nature of the occupation. 
__ To these various objections, the following replies may be made. Experi- 
_ ence shows beyond question that the majority of young people suffer, instead 
of benefit, when they are left to discover their most suitable occupation by a 
‘series of ‘unsuccessful efforts. They lose self-confidence owing to their 
