Too much segregation?

In its Professional-Group system, the IRE has employed segregation as a means of providing a number of independent communication systems, each devoted to a clearly defined part of the technology. Two apparent indexes of the success of the plan are the number of Professional Groups that have been set up and thep roportion of the IRE membership which is enrolled in these groups. Under the assumption that if a little of something is good, a lot of it will be better, we could continue to give birth to new Professional Groups until their number equals the number of members of the IRE or perhaps exceeds it. There are twenty-eight Professional Groups and one may be e2cused in reading over their names for wondering if some of these could not be coordinated to advantage. There can be too much segregation, and .one dreads the day when there is set up a new Professional Group on Adjustable Transducers Having Logarithmic Taper for Clockwise Rotation.