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    Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers, Vol. LXX, Dec. 1910 Address at the 42d Annual Convention, Chicago, Illinois, June 21st, 1910, Paper No. 1178
    Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers, Vol. LXX, Dec. 1910 Address at the 42d Annual Convention, Chicago, Illinois, June 21st, 1910, Paper No. 1178
    Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers, Vol. LXX, Dec. 1910 Address at the 42d Annual Convention, Chicago, Illinois, June 21st, 1910, Paper No. 1178
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    Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers, Vol. LXX, Dec. 1910 Address at the 42d Annual Convention, Chicago, Illinois, June 21st, 1910, Paper No. 1178

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      Title: Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers, Vol. LXX, Dec. 1910

      Address at the 42d Annual Convention, Chicago, Illinois,

      June 21st, 1910, Paper No. 1178

      Author: John A. Bensel

      Release Date: July 8, 2006 [EBook #18795]

      Language: English

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      ADDRESS AT THE 42d ANNUAL CONVENTION, CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, JUNE 21st, 1910.

      By John A. Bensel, President, Am. Soc. C. E.

      I know that to some of my audience a satisfactory address at a summer convention would be like that which many people regard as a satisfactory sermon—something soothing and convincing, to the effect that you are not as other men are, but better. While I appreciate very fully, however, the honor of being able to address you, I am going to look trouble in the face in an effort to convince you that, in spite of great individual achievements, engineers are behind other professional men in professional spirit, and particularly in collective effort.

      Whether this, if true, is due to our extreme youth

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