Word: swains
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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...
Professor Swain 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...
Professor Swain has been for over 20 years consulting engineer of the Massachusetts State Railroad Commissioners, and in that capacity has built a number of bridges, besides constructing the Boston subways. He has been a member of the Boston Transit Commission since its organization in 1894 and has done much to simplify traffic conditions in Boston. He has also studied the subject of the conservation of the natural resources of the nation, and last spring was appointed by President Roosevelt a member of the national commission in charge of that work. He is well known as an author of scientific...
Last January Professor Swain was appointed to a professorship in the Graduate School of Applied Science in the University, and he will take up his work next September...
...Faculties of Law and Medicine, the founders of the new institution aimed to place it in the front rank. An opportunity was provided when the McKay bequest became available last January, and the first step towards the desired expansion was made with the appointment of Professors Swain and Clifford from the Institute of Technology. Professor Swain, whose reputation as an engineer is national, will deliver in the Union this evening the fourth in the series of lectures on the professions. He is worth hearing...