The Institute and its local sections

On January 14, 1910, the Board of Directors after careful consideration, adopted resolutions which have a most important bearing upon the future activity of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers. These resolutions were published in Section I of the Proceedings for February, but it is thought advisable in view of the fundamental and far reaching importance of the step which has been taken to call attention to them, and request the Institute membership to read them carefully and coöperate effectively to the end that the utmost possibilities of the Institute, conducted along broad lines as an organization in every sense continental and not local, may be realized. The principal objects which the Directors have had in view in developing the plan which is made effective by the resolutions referred to, are the following: