Excerpt from Applied Science, Vol. 4: Incorporated With Transactions of the University of Toronto Engineering Society; November '10 to April '11
Advancing civilization has so complicated man's require ments and multiplied the field of endeavor of the man whose profession of old was confined in the army to the handling of artillery. And in civil life to the construction of roads. Bridges, buildings. And steam engines, that perhaps a good definition to day of an engineer would be a man who does things.'
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