Abstract :
The fact that the provision of the Constitution of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers which assigns the address of the President to the close rather than to the beginning of his term, seems to me to indicate a desire on the part of the Institute to have this address include in some measure, the ideas of the retiring President, acquired during his term on matters of general concern to the Institute, and to review those problems of procedure, organization and policy, which may assist the Institute to grow and develop in a way, which is healthy and for the best interests of its members, for the engineering profession as a whole, for the good of the electrical industry and the communities which we represent. It seems fitting therefore at this time to bring to your attention several outstanding features of the year just past.
