The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1920-12-28
HIGHWAY COMMITTEE
APPOINTS DIRECTOR
G.. J. Tilden of Yale Is Made
Director Of Highway and
Transport, Work

Transport Work
Washington, D. c., Dec. &c. ].
Tilden, professor Of engineering me-
chanics at Yale university, has been
granted leave Of absence for year
to accept the position of director of
the highway and highway transport
education committee, Of which DR.. P.
p. Claxton, United States commission
er of education, is chairman.
The committee which was formed
last May, at the invitation of the
commissioner of education, in addi-
ton to DR.. Claxton, include Thomas
H. Mcdonald, chief of the bureau Of
public. roads, United States depart
ment of agriculture; Colonel Mason
NJ. Patrick, corps of engineers, U. S.
A.; Roy D. Chaplin, president of the
Hudson Motor Car company; w. S.
Keller, president of the American
Association of State Highway OFF,
Gals; H. S. Firestone, of Firestone
Tire company; Dean Bishop, of the
University of Pittsburgh, and Profess
sor Tilden.
includes Various Groups
The membership of the committee
is designed to include representatives
Of all governmental, educational and
industrial groups interested in the adj
vancement Of education in highway
and highway transport engineering.
The formation of the committee
last May was the first step in a ma.
tion-wide undertaking on the part of
these groups, apd it is expected to
lead to better training of larger num-
bers of highway and highway trans
port engineers to fill numerous posi-
tons which will be available for them
in the near future. ~, ~: =.
The new director will take charge
Immediately of the work planned by
, the committee, which includes the
compilation Of economic, scientific
and engineering data relative to high
way construction and highway trans
port, and the distributions of these
data to educational institutions. Be-
cause of recent development in the
science of road construction as it is
now practiced, and the still later de-
velopment of automotive and trans
port engineering, there are no up-to-
date text books for use in colleges
and technical schools. Several large
governmental and industrial agencies
have agreed to supply data for such
books from their experience.
It is expected that Professor Til
denis work ultimately will lead ia
L - hnp
gram of education for highway and
highway transport engineers which
will insure an adequate supply OF
technically trained young men to fill
the ranks of the growing branches Of
the engineering profession.
Well Fitted for Place.
Professor Tilden is eminently fitted
for the position to which he has beer
appointed. He is an engineer and edu
Gator of recognized ability. He grad
uated from Harvard university il
1896, with the degree of Bachelor o:
Science, and received the honorar!
degree of Master of Arts from Yal'
in 1919. From 1901 to 1903 he wa
assistant engineer of the New Yorl
Rapid Transit commission. He re
signed this position to become an edu
Gator at Cornell university, where h
was an instructor in civil engineering
from 1908 to 1905. Later he becam
. connected with the University {
Michigan, where he rose to the Pre-
. fessorship of engineering mechanic:
, the position which he occupied i
1918, when he was called to tn
, chair of civil engineering at John
Hopkins university. After five veal
as the head of the civil engineerin
department of that university, he r.
signed to become professor of eng
neering mechanics at Yale.
Professor Tilden is a member {
t the American Society of Civil Eng
: neers and fellow in the America
e Association for the Advancement (
Science. He was one of the brigin
+ members of the highway and highws
|. transport education committee,
!, which he now becomes the directo