Judge Mossop Finds Perfect Definition: Chinese Students and Apprenticeships It is not possible to pull wool over the eyes of judge of BIN. Supreme Court even if, as Mr, C.D.. Pearson treated Judge A. G. Mossop, you lure him to the annual dinner of the Shanghai Association of the tnetitution of Civil Engineers and insist that he shall reply on behalf of the guests to the toast of their health, drunk by hosts barely outnumbering those nests as they sat round the board. "Dull dogs are we." deprecating had, Mr. Pearson observed in _conveying the Invitation, Judge' Moe sop cautiously looked up the records. 'The result was that when he fulfiied the task assigned to him he was able to read out, for the bene-At of his fellow-guests, an author {alive definition of the' qualities required of a Civil Engineer—not from the Charter of the Institution, although that is expressive enough, but wisdom of the Louisa Mag-'To put it briefly and recalling a famous phrase applied by fan Trish BLP. to the Judge's own profession, it was disclosed that the En-inoer was the "perfect embodiment of all wisdom, human and divine"
Judge Mossop dramatically invited the company to observe that they were in the awful presence of super~ men—the Admirable Crichtons of the age, who even. Included in their equipment 2 quality lacking in every other profession: modesty. The point was well taken, for Dr. Herbert Chatley, incidentally acknowledging Mr, Pearson's comradely regret at his impending departure and good wish-for the fulure, had most, modest-proposed the toast to which the Judge was replying. Painstakingly running through the list Dr. Chatley showed that his colleagues could happily waive their omniscience in salute Ing. the discovered or imaginary merits of others.
Mr. H. G. W. Woodhead, inter~ vening by request to defend the Press, showed proper journalistic refusal to be aghast at the notion of speaking disrespectfully of the Equator. He had put his Anger on the Institution's desertion of Fleet [Street for Westminster, not far from Buckingham Palace. "Relying successfully on the politeness or ignorance of his audience, Mr, Woodhead Assumed the premise that Fleet Street enshrined the palladium of English grammar and, convicting the Engiers of defective knowledge of the Fight use of plurals, in that they called a graduate of their profession MICE," he arrived at the conclusion "that they fled from Fleet Street because it would insist on the label "ABLO.US.E," thus taking refuge in the vieinily of a Court always confused in its distinction between plural and sinful The Institutions Record son, delivering his Chaizman's speech, Howaver that might be, Mr. Pear-in proposing the toast of the Institution of Civil Engineers, drew attention to the fine building in which the Institution is now located, the final touches having been given as recently fas last year, although actually it was completed for practical purposes, de-Signed by James Miller. in 1913, That was 95' years after the meeting the Kendal Coffee House in Fleet Street where the idea of founding the Institution was carried into effect, the Charter dating. from ry present membership was nearly 1 000 strong. It was the senior Enj gineering institution of the world, mothering nearly 100 other Engineer ing Societies.
Proud that Shanghai, founded six years ago by the energy of Mr. Frank Gil, was the youngest of the overseas branches, Mr. Pearson was con-vineed that the apparent lifting of the depression would encourage the growth of membership. He specially referred to the success of the apprenticeship scheme of the Federation of British Industries under which graduates from Chiness tochhileal Institutions were receiving with the assistance of the Boxer demnity. Trustees, practical training and experience in British Engineer= ing Works.
Nowadays young engineers had to have a thorough' technical training, of which membership' of the Institution' was" the hall-marie, before coming out to tackle the Problems which the Civil fineer in China had to meet, the major local problem being the subsoil on which Shanghai was built now subjected to an exhaustive study by a group of local Civil Engineers of various nationalities. Finally came the reference to the pending relirement of Dr. Chatley after 28 years in China and to the loss his departure would mean to the local branch, whith he had been largely instru mental- in forming and over "which he had presided for the last three years.
'A federation of Japanese hotel owners in China, one of whose aims will be to end the present practice of some Japanese travellers of slopping in foreign and Chinese hotels Will shortly make Its appearance, the "Shanghai Mainichi" reported. yereased the "naval concentration" here paused here on their way north for the summer. Upper Medway en
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