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...Records show," cried one of Col. Wilgus' assistants, "that accidents have been less since boondoggles and similar activities gave poor children something to do and kept them off the street...
This Committee plans to continue the work of last year in having a number of lectures by prominent men on different Vocations. Last year five talks were given the speakers being Colonel W. J. Wilgus, Mr. E. F. Gay, Hon. '18, Professor Bliss Perry, Mr. James Bejoue '77, and President Lowell...
...series of lectures the first was given by Colonel W. J. Wilgus, an eminent consulting engineer, who described the various branches of his profession which it young man might enter. Speaking on "Business as a Gareer", Mr. E. F. Gay, Hon, '18, declared in the second talk that service and not merely money should guide a man's life in business...
...follow the will o' the wisp of the dollar, according to Mr. Gay, leads the business man into a bog of profit and loss and his career sinks to a job. The engineer, as Colonel Wilgus explained, who thinks only in terms of girders and logarithms becomes a salaried adviser; the one who sees his building as a part of a city's progress becomes a leader. Emerson was speaking for this broader vision when he said that it was a fatal tendency of society to disintegrate into men in cubby-holes, each seeing the world through the narrow opening...
Because of several requests for copies of the lecture which Colonel W. J. Wilgus delivered last Wednesday night at the Union on engineering as a career, a limited number of, copies of his remarks have been prepared. Men who desire these may obtain them at University...