Word: civilization
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Prof. George F. Swain, professor of civil engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, lectured to the members of the Union last night on "Engineering as a Profession." He dwelt particularly on the fact that the successful engineer must combine good business ability, high character, and a knowledge of men, with his technical training...
...began by giving a short history of engineering. He said that since early times engineering has been in use to supply men with water, food, and habitation. The Egyptians and Babylonians constructed great works, but in many instances wasted their efforts. During the Middle Ages with the decadence of civilization, engineering declined, only to take on new life in the sixteenth century. The need of the civil engineer became greater with construction of roads, bridges, docks, and harbors. The many inventions of the early nineteenth century gave added impulse to the profession, and engineers began to be differentiated. There arose...
...Technology in 1877, Professor Swain studied for a number of years at the Royal Engineering School in Berlin. When he returned to this country, he was appointed an instructor in the Institute, and after two years was made assistant and later associate professor. In 1887 he became professor of civil engineering, a position that he holds at present...
Professor George F. Swain, professor of civil engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, will speak on "Engineering as a Profession" in the Living Room of the union tomorrow evening at 8 o'clock. After being graduated from the Institute of Technology in 1877, Professor Swain studied engineering abroad. He has been an engineer of the Massachusetts Railroad Commission for 20 years, a member of the Boston Transit Commission for 15 years, and engineer for various bridges across the Connecticut and Merrimac Rivers...
After being graduated from Harvard in 1860, Mr. Spaulding entered the Divinity School, from which he was graduated in 1866. During the Civil War, he served on the United States Sanitary Commission. Since then he has spent most of his time lecturing and preaching in the schools and colleges throughout this country and Europe. He is also the author of numerous books on biblical subjects...