'The first' ordinary meeting for the year of the Engineering Society of China was held at the Metropole Hotel on Monday (Oct. 15). Professor John A. Ely, of, MAM, soccer, president of the society, gave an address.
Prof. Ely, after thanking those present for electing him president of the oelety for the ensuing year, referred his listeners to the first meeting of the society a year ago, when the responsibility of the engineer in China, was discussed and three suggestions were put forward by which Such a responsibility might be measured:—
That we should aim to value the! utegnrd of ving In China by bringing release. rom Dhysical toll and a degree of freedom ud' opportunity for intellectual develop-
2—That we should strive to reach and maintain a high efficiency in' the apers Hon of the efconomle machine here in China. "The" present depression (evidence of some failure in the function= ug of our economic machine and. Our faun should be to apply the lessons of {uch failure t0 conditions in China and hus help her: to avoid, some of the crore made in the west"
'BThat we should Took beyond, the purely techinleal aspects of our Work to The larger fields of social and cultural Values and in cooperation with workers In the elds of sociology, economics, and hance, aim to. seech the, sation of our technical problems the greatest zeal value and service to the people of China.
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