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THAT a special degree of responsibility falls on those called to high office in a professional capacity in time of war was apparent from the presidential address of Sir Clement Hindley to the Institution of Civil Engineers. Instead of devoting himself, as he had intended, to recounting the cultural history and development of the Institution, he found it more appropriate to put before the members the picture he had in mind of the duties now to be taken up by the Institution as a corporate body, and by its members as individuals. The regular forms of its activities being very largely curtailed by the exigencies of war conditions, its first duty lies in the maintenance of high standards, both educational and practical, for the admission of members. This involves an active interest in the education and training of young engineers and, as a matter of immediate concern, in conjunction with the colleges, the adjustment of curricula to war-time conditions. On the Institution, too, is placed the responsibility of seeing that studies are pushed on as far as possible before military service has to be undertaken, and that those with technical training are employed in suitable units. In all this there is the ultimate fact of importance that when the period of reconstruction is reached, Great Britain will need a well-trained and well-equipped body of young engineers.
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Engineers in War-time. Nature 144, 825 (1939). https://doi.org/10.1038/144825b0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/144825b0