Abstract :
Boston. — February 8, 1916, City Club. Seventh Annual Banquet of engineering societies in Boston. Addresses as follows: (1) “The Engineer and the Commonwealth,” by Governor Samuel W. McCall; (2) “Engineers in National Defence,” by Colonel W. E. Craighill, U. S. A.; (3) “Engineers in National Defence — A Second Viewpoint,” by Wm. Barclay Parsons; (4) “The Slides on the Panama Canal,” by John R. Freeman; (5) “An Evening´s Journey Among the Stars,” by John A. Brashear. Attendance 382.