The San Francisco call., 1909-02-07
EVENTS COUNTIES BORDERING FRANCISCO
ENGINEERS ASSUME
A HIGHER PLANE
II. c. Hoover Says This Is Due
to Become the Worlds Best
Paid Profession

/ STANFORD UNIVERSITY. Feb. g.
Ihat engineers are now the best paid
professional men in the world and in
the next few years are to rise to a
higher plane of Importance was stated
by H. G. Hoover, the wealthy mine
owner and engineer, who has been Civ
ing series of lectures at Stanford
university. He is a graduate of Stan
ford, taking his degree with the first
class to graduate.
The last lecture was given yesterday
before an assembly of practically all
OF the upper class engineering students.
In speaking of the rise of the engineer
ing profession he said:
The engineering profession has ex-
perienced rapid rise in the last 20
years, for now the engineer is not the
dirty technician who sits in back Of
flee and makes blue prints He is now
the man who goes into the field. and
must possess executive and commercial
ability
The profession was at first com
posed of elevated artisans. but in the
become necessity. An engineer is not
last 40 years university training has
an engine driver, but engineering is the
science of application of theories to
practice"
The speaker said that the engineer
AAiAoN POoSCSS WDd lie Q6HHeQ dS en-
gineering sense THE engineer must
also have executive ability" he con-
tinued, the capacity to coordinate
and control the best efforts of other
people. The engineer must consider
four phases when undertaking any big
engineering project. First, he must
consider the value of the project. Sec
ond, the method of attack and the risk
of the unknown, for in new plan the
unknown must always be reckoned, as
it often plays the most important part.
The delineation of details require tech
nical training, and, lastly, the actual
work calling on mans executive
ability.
Engineering work is the best paid
of any profession, due to the scarcity
of the combined qualities of training.
honesty and ability 1t is a battle
with nature which usually leads to a
compromise A real engineer does not
advertise himself, and today the world
does not know who did much of our
engineering work. In the future the
world will ask, Who did the work.
and not How much did it cost?' En-
gineering is the profession of creation
and construction"
Members of the sophomore class of
Stanford university have decided to
publish their annual, the 1911 Quad,
along lines never before attempted. In
the past the managers of the Quads
have had full say of the class of the
publication, with the single exception
of the 1910 issue, which is on the honor
basis Under the system adopted the
editor is to receive all his expenses
and q bonus of 500, while the man
ager is to issue a book which shall
cost specified amount and take as his
share the net profits over this amount.
The manager is to be under a heavy
bond.
H A Moran. university athlete,
Rhodes scholar to oxford and well
known graduate, who is to leave
shortly to take up missionary work in
China, will act as agent of the local
branch of the Young Mems Christian
association to institute athletics among
the Celestia1s He has a guarantee of
an annual remittance from this organi-
zation at Stanford.
BY offering prize of SIS for the
annual junior opera manuscript the
committee of the 1910 class has met
with much success. Several bright
manuscripts have been submitted and
many more are being written The
opera is to be produced the last of
March, and tryouts for the chorus
will be held within few weeks.
President David Starr Jordan has
announced that owing to the repairs
necessary to be made on the museum
before it will be possible to open it
for the general public, he has decided
to allow undergraduates to enter the
building within a few days to view
the relics stored there. The members
of the senior class are the only under
graduates enrolled in the university
who have been in the building, as it
was wrecked in the earthquake of
1905