Abstract :
An event of interest to engineers and chemists generally will take place at the Academy of Music, Brooklyn, N. Y., on January 13th, 1926, when Doctor Parke Rexford Kolbe will be installed as the new president of the Polytechnic Institute. Doctor Charles Alexander Richmond, president of Union College, will deliver the principal address of the evening; the presentation of the charter, seal and keys will be made by Charles E. Potts, of the class of 1892,. now chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Polytechnic Institute. Other speakers of the evening will be Doctor William H. Nichols, chairman of the Board of the General Chemical Company, and for many years chairman of the Corporation of the Polytechnic Institute; Doctor George S. Collins, senior member of the faculty, and Bancroft Gherardi, chief engineer of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company. Official delegates from colleges, universities and societies have been invited to attend and acceptances received indicate an attendance of a noteworthy number of prominent men from all parts of the country; among them Robert Lincoln Kelley, executive secretary of the Association of American Colleges; George B. Pegram, president of the Society for the Promotion of Engineering Education; W. E. Wickenden, director of Investigation for the Society for the Promotion of Engineering Education; H. Foster Bain, secretary of the American Institute of Mining and Metallurgical Engineers; Robert Ridgway, American Society of Civil Engineers; Elmer E. Brown, Chancellor, New York University; Charles C. Mierow, president of the Colorado College; General James G. Harbord, Kansas State Agricultural College, Col. R. C. Langdon, West Point; Arthur M. Greene, Jr., Engineering Foundation; Palmer C. Ricketts, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and Allen Hazen, University of New Hampshire. A reception for the official delegates will be held at the conclusion of the academic exercises.
