Standardization

ALLOW me to commence these remarks by saying how deeply sensible I am of the honor of addressing this representative gathering of American electrical engineers. Thoughtful Europeans, as Lord Bryce well said, have begun to realize the increasing influence of this vast country in the affairs of the world, and the splendor of the part reserved to you in the development of civilization. A brief visit to your hospitable shores has been an inspiration and has enabled me to appreciate, in some small measure, the freedom of your thought, and the breadth of your conceptions. Such is the grandeur of your outlook that I can but echo what was so beautifully expressed by one of the orators at the recent Harvard commencement exercises, namely, that the world needs you and the world will heed you if you but acquit yourselves as men!