Aldred lectures at M. I. T.

The first of the Aldred Lectures at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, established by Mr. J. E. Aldred, who carried to a successful conclusion the immense hydroelectric development at Shawinigan Falls on the St. Maurice River in Canada, is announced for the afternoon of November 9th. Mr. Gerard Swope, a Technology graduate, of the class of 1895, president of the General Electric Company, will deliver the first of the lectures. Other eminent industrialists and engineers are to complete the program for the first year which will consist of twelve lectures. President Stratton has appointed Professor D. C. Jackson, Head of the Department of Electrical Engineering and Professor Vannevar Bush, in charge of graduate work in Electrical Engineering, to cooperate with Mr. Aldred in establishing the lectures. A number of prominent men have been invited to give papers in a schedule that is being arranged to cover the next five years.