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Caption: Booklet - Engineering Experiment Station and Industry (1909)
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46 Discussion—Engineering Experiment Station research is being conducted by the others, thus avoiding duplication of work. Also that broad and adequate consideration be given to the experimental work which may be undertaken, because it is no easy matter to expend to the best advantage appropriations made for such work. There is danger that the things selected for study may appeal only to the official in charge, and that his viewpoint may govern; rather than that of the requirements of the public. Aside from the conduct of research, I think the experiment stations have an opportunity to be of great benefit at small expense, by assembling together, properly editing and presenting in bulletins, results secured by other experimenters, which would often be of as great advantage as work that the experiment station might itself conduct. President Allen: The tide has been running for sometime from the East to the West; now we have the return tide, and Western business men are called to high executive places in the East; Western engineers are in charge of many of the most important engineering works in the East, and now Western educators are going to Eastern Universities. So the West is coming into its own; instead of being a missionary State it is sending its own missionaries abroad. And now let us wish Prof. Breckenridge a career of splendid success in the East. Our best wishes go with him to his new responsibilities, and he will always find a warm welcome from the State and its citizens to whom he has given so many of the best years of his life. Prof. Breckenridge: I desire to thank the members of the Western Society of Engineers for air the delightful things they have said to me. I shall always remember the many agreeable things that have come to me during my stay in the West, and when I come to Chicago, it is needless to say I shall always call on the Western Society of Engineers I shall also greet with much pleasure members of this society that come to New Haven to visit Yale or to see me, and I shall always be glad to have any of you hunt me up and let me have the pleasure of showing you Yale and particularly the Sheffield Scientific School. ^ ^
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