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THE practice of forming engineering societies in universities where engineering is taught is an exceedingly good one, and should receive every encouragement and help from the authorities. In fact every college should have its society. The meetings give the students an opportunity of discussing interesting engineering works, and give them a greater interest in the subject-matter taught in the class-room. These junior engineering societies, if I may so call them, ought not to be only found in colleges, but all large engineering works should have a society of their own, the members of which should include those of the pupils, apprentices, and men who are anxious to improve themselves by the reading and discussing of papers prepared in rotation by the members themselves. Visits to other works might also be arranged. No doubt the formation of such societies may seem very hard to accomplish, but in most works there will be found men willing and anxious to form such societies and to keep them going until their utility is recognised.
The Journal of the Engineering Society of the Lehigh University,
March, 1886.)
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L., N. Our Book Shelf . Nature 34, 2 (1886). https://doi.org/10.1038/034002a0
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