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that otherwise could not be attempted. To 

 name a thing is to know it. The wonderful 

 electrical units are a fluent language that 

 gives the widest opportunity to thought. 

 By their character they educate our facul- 

 ties of definition and of relation. They 

 typify all quantitative thinking, not merely 

 electrical. They are the epitome, the last 

 word of the great minds of our age, as to 

 what the scientific method of thought is, in 

 relation to the whole realm of matter and 

 force. 



Therefore although the subject matter of 

 electrical engineering is covering a wider 

 and wider range — so wide as to be almost in- 

 congruous — the electrical method of think- 

 ing is applicable throughout. It is spread- 

 ing far beyond. As an electrical engineer, I 

 even find myself thinking of the crowds 

 passing in the streets in terms of amperes 

 and volts, and of the fluctuations of the 

 stock market in terms of current, induct- 

 ance, capacity, resistance and resonance. 



That which can impose form upon our 

 thought enables us successfully to think of 

 any kind of thing. The forms of thought 

 established for electrical engineering are 

 at once so comprehensive, so rigid, so rich 

 in detail, and so illuminating that engineer- 

 ing does not bound them. They may be 

 called the manifestation of science in civili- 

 zation, the best representation of the scien- 

 tific method at work for utilitarian ends. 

 They prove that the profession of electrical 

 engineering not only deals with single- 

 phase motors, storage batteries, high-ten- 

 sion transmissions, turbo generators, co- 

 ronas, carbon transmitters and commuta- 

 tion, as an occupation, but that it also is a 

 way of thinking, and as such is not an occu- 

 pation, but the latest and most highly de- 

 veloped scientific method of solving all 

 kinds of practical problems of matter and 

 force, for the benefit of the human race. 

 Gano Dunn 



HONOBABY DEGBEES AT TEE UNIVEB- 

 SIT7 OF MICHIGAN 



On the occasion of the celebration of the 

 seventy-fifth anniversary of the University of 

 Michigan honorary degrees were conferred b.y 

 vote of the senate council and board of regents 

 on graduates of the university and former 

 members of the university senate. The doc- 

 torates conferred on scientific men with the 

 accompanying remarks were as follows : 



THE DEGREE OP DOCTOR OF SCIENCE 



Edward Allen Fay, of the clasa of 1862, educa- 

 tor, editor, one of the foremost Dante scholars in 

 this country and historian of American schools for 

 the deaf. 



Doctor John Elmer Weeks, of the class of 1881, 

 department of medicine and surgery, now pro- 

 fessor of ophthalmology in New York and Bellevue 

 University, joint discoverer of the Koch-Weeks 

 bacillus. 



Doctor John Jacob Abel, of the class of 1883, 

 professor of materia medica and therapeutics in 

 the department of medicine and surgery of this 

 university from 1891 to 1893, now professor of 

 pharmacology in Johns Hopkins University, dis- 

 tinguished for his researches and original con- 

 tributions. 



Doctor Henry Sewall, professor of physiology in 

 this university from 1882 to 1889, now professor 

 of physiology in the University of Colorado, whose 

 research on immunization to the venom of the 

 rattlesnake done while a professor in this univer- 

 sity laid the foundation for the discovery of 

 diphtheria antitoxin. 



Bryant Walker, of the class of 1876, a man who, 

 though a busy lawyer, has found the time to make 

 himself well and favorably known for his pub- 

 lished work on molluscs, a world authority on the 

 group. 



Charles Francis Brush, of the class of 1869, de- 

 partment of engineering, the earliest pioneer in the 

 field of electric lighting, inventor of modern arc 

 electric lighting, honored many times at home and 

 abroad for his scientific achievements. 



THE DEGREE OP DOCTOR OP ENGINEERING 



George Henry Benzenberg, of the class of 1867, 

 department of engineering, past president of the 

 American Society of Civil Engineers, a noted au- 

 thority on the construction of water works, dis- 

 tinguished civil engineer and citizen. 



Cornelius Donovan, of the class of 1872, depart- 



