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members and non-members covering many of the 

 important phases of engineering education and 

 allied matters. Several of these took tangible 

 form in committees appointed to carry out the 

 suggestions presented in the papers. For ex- 

 ample, a paper by Professor E. V. Huntington, 

 of Harvard University, on ' ' The Units of Force ' ' 

 was partly instrumental in causing the appoint- 

 ment of a Committee on the Teaching of Mechan- 

 ics to Engineering Students. In another paper 

 Mr. D. M. Wright, of the Henry & Wright Mfg. 

 Co., suggested the appointment of a committee to 

 study and report upon the standardization of 

 technical terms. This suggestion was carried out. 



The presidential address of Professor Wm. T. 

 Magruder, of The Ohio State University, was 

 devoted to the qualifications required in a good 

 instructor. He pictured an ideal instructor as one 

 who knows his subject but is also in mental reach 

 of his students; who has the highest reputation 

 for honesty, right living, patience and sound char 

 acter; who is in practical touch with the subjects 

 he has to teach and who has unbounded enthu 

 siasm for the work of both teacher and engineer, 



Other important papers treated of the construe 

 tion of buildings for technical schools, instruction 

 in highway and in hydraulic engineering, in shop 

 work and in drawing. The general subject of aca 

 demic efficiency was discussed by Professor H. S, 

 Person, director of the Amos Tuck School of Dart 

 mouth College. President A. C. Humphreys, of the 

 Stevens Institute of Technology, and Professor G. 

 P. Swain, of Harvard University, championed the 

 four -year as against the courses requiring five years 

 or longer, while the opposition was led by Professor 

 P. H. Constant of the University of Minnesota. 

 The results of the operation of the systematic 

 grading system in use at the University of Mis- 

 souri were described by Professor A. L. Hyde. 

 Professor P. P. McKibben, of Lehigh University, 

 called attention to the advantages of summer work 

 for engineering students and explained how his 

 students arrange for such work. A very interest- 

 ing session was devoted to engineering college 

 shop practise and engineering drawing. Professor 

 J. V. Martenis and Mr. W. H. Richards described 

 how shop work is made attractive and stimulating 

 to the students by making the exercises lead to 

 something definite. An extensive exhibit was used 

 to illustrate the working out of the plan. Pro- 

 fessor T. E. French, of The Ohio State University, 

 a most successful teacher of engineering drawing, 

 showed how this subject can be taught effectively. 

 Among other papers one by Professors C. E. Sher- 



man and E. K. Schlafly, of The Ohio State Uni- 

 versity, described a novel practise of sending civil 

 engineering students into commercial work during 

 the summer under the direction of instructors if 

 the students could not obtain regular summer 

 employment. Professor H. Wade Hibbard, of the 

 University of Missouri, presented directions for 

 thesis work and gave a long list of subjects suit- 

 able for investigation. Mr. Ivy L. Lee, executive 

 assistant, the Pennsylvania B. E. Co., gave some 

 excellent suggestions from the employers of tech- 

 nical graduates to the teachers, indicating how the 

 latter can exert helpful influences in the right 

 direction. These suggestions were well received 

 and provoked considerable discussion. In addition 

 to the papers there were committee and officers' 

 reports, all of which showed the society to be in 

 good condition and alive to its opportunities. 



A number of social functions and excursions 

 increased the pleasures of the meeting and enabled 

 the members to meet the faculty of the University 

 of Minnesota and their families and to appreciate 

 the remarkable beauty of the country around 

 Minneapolis. 



The following members were elected to serve 

 for one or more years in the positions indicated: 

 President, G. C. Anthony, Tufts College, Mass. 

 Vice-presidents, H. S. Jacoby, Ithaca, N. Y., and 

 D. C. Humphreys, Lexington, Va. Secretary, H. 

 H. Norris, Ithaca, N. Y. Treasurer, W. 0. Wiley, 

 New York, N. Y. Councillors, H. W. Tyler, Bos- 

 ton, Mass.; J. F. Hayford, Evanston, 111.; A. S. 

 Langsdorf, St. Louis, Mo.; S. M. Woodward, Iowa 

 City, Iowa; M. 8. Ketchum, Boulder, Colo.; F. P. 

 Spalding, Columbia, Mo., and P. F. Walker, 

 Lawrence, Kans. 



President Magruder made the following impor- 

 tant committee appointments, carrying out the in- 

 structions of the society: Joint Cmnmittee on 

 Engineering Education, G. C. Anthony, A. N. 

 Talbot; Committee on Teaching Mechanics to 

 Engineering Students, E. E. Maurer (chairman), 

 L. M. Hoskins, S. M. Woodward, C. E. Puller, L. 

 A. Martin, Jr., Wm. Kent, S. A. Moss, Albert 

 Kingsbury, H. F. Moore; Committee on, Teaching 

 Physics to Engineering Students, D. C. Miller 

 (chairman), G. V. Wendell, J. M. Jameson, W. S. 

 Franklin, H. M. Eaymond, O. M. Stewart, E. P. 

 Hyde, G. A. Goodenough, F. K. Eichtmyer; Com- 

 mittee on Standardization of Technical Nomen- 

 clature, J. J. Flather (chairman), W. D. Ennis, 

 S. C. Earle, F. N. Eaymond, D. M. Wright; Com- 

 mittee on Statistics, A. J. Wood (chairman), F. 

 A. Barnes, F. A. Fish, J. D. Phillips, H. H. Stoek. 



