Abstract :
On Friday, May 18, a farewell dinner was given at the Harvard Club by the national societies of civil, mechanical, mining and electrical engineers to Dr. Emmanuel de Margerie, French exchange professor to the United States. Dr. Albert Ledoux, past president of the A. I. M. E., presided. A number of French officials were also the guests of the societies, including Dr. Imlay Benet, Consul General in New York. Prof. de Margerie, who as representative of the Ministry of Education has just finished a year of lecturing at Columbia, Cornell, Harvard, Johns Hopkins, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Pennsylvania and Yale, is an international authority on geology. He has just been awarded one of the highest honors of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States, the Mary Clark Thompson gold medal for services to geology and paleontology. In his address, Prof. Margerie said, “to the engineers, after God and George Washington, the American people owes most of its present prosperity…. Great possibilities are now in your hands, in directing a large part of public opinion towards that fundamental problem of democracy, the proper education of young men”. Other speakers were M. Benet, M. Liebert and Dr. A. E. Kennelly of Harvard, former engineering exchange professor to France.
