Abstract :
Under date of September 20, 1917, Rear-Admiral S. C. Palmer, Chief of Bureau of Navigation, U. S. Navy, addressed a letter to the President of the Institute, stating that the Secretary of the Navy had authorized the commissioning of one hundred graduate electrical engineers as Lieutenants, Junior Grade, in the Reserve Force of the Navy; that three organizations, namely, the Naval Consulting Board, the National Research Council, and the A. I. E. E., were each requested to nominate eighty-five men possessing certain specified qualifications; and that from the total of two hundred fifty-five nom nations thus received a Navy Board would select the one hundred men to be commissioned.
