INSPIRING BOOKS AND MAGAZINES

Books and other reading materials that inspired the author in the formation of this text book, in some instances fitting quotations were acquired, in other instances an inspired concrete thought was the result.

"Modern Business Text Books"

By Alexander Hamilton Institute "Human Physiology"

By Albert P. Brubaker, A.M., M.D.

"Four Minute Essays," and various other classics, also Editorials published in the “Current Opinion Magazine"

By Dr. Frank Crane

"The True Abraham Lincoln"

By W. E. Curtis

"Men Who Are Making America," "The Forbes Magazine"

By B. C. Forbes "Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Men and Women," "No Enemy But Himself," "Consecrated Lives,"

"The Man of Sorrows"

By Elbert Hubbard

"Man to Man," or "Industrial Democracy"

By John Leitch

"Nature and Culture," "Books and Culture," "Work and Culture," "The Life of Spirit," "The Great Word," "My Study Fire," "A Child of Nature," "Works and Days"

By Hamilton Wright Mabie

"Science and Health"

By Mary Baker Eddy

"Romances of Electricity"

By W. H. McCormick

"American Ideals and Other Essays," "Theodore Roosevelt" an autobiography, "America and the World War"

By Theodore Roosevelt

"Succeeding With What You Have"

By Charles M. Schwab

"Brain and Personality"

By William Hanna Thomson

"The Silent Partner" (monthly magazine)

By Fred D. Van Amburgh

"When a Man Comes to Himself." "The State," "Division and Reunion," "An Old Master," and other essays, "George Washington," "A History of the American People," "The New Freedom," "Constitutional Government in the U. S.," "Free Life," "On Being Human"

By Woodrow Wilson.

Taken from the Machinery Magazine, January, 1921

The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching recently made a thorough investigation of many problems connected with engineering education. In the course of this investigation, questionnaires were sent to leading engineers throughout the country, asking them to state the characteristics which, in their opinion, counted for most in a successful career in the engineering profession. Over 6,000 replies were received, and on a percentage basis the following qualities were considered the most important for a successful engineer: Character, 24 per cent; judgment, 19.5 per cent; efficiency, 16.5 per cent; understanding of men, 15 per cent; professional knowledge, 15 per cent; technique, 10 per cent. It is interesting to note that men who themselves have been successful in their profession, considered general qualifications, such as character and judgment, to be far more important than mere professional knowledge and technique. Probably they had found it easier to acquire knowledge and technique than the other qualities essential to success in engineering.-Machinery 1921.

The above article was inserted in this text-book after all forms were closed, because of its important bearing upon the human elements in all engineering fields.