Quad, Vol. 3: A Quarterly Review of Student Thinking at Birmingham-Southern College; May, 1943 (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

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Excerpt from Quad, Vol. 3: A Quarterly Review of Student Thinking at Birmingham-Southern College; May, 1943

The good judge was a man of vision. He described a visit to a rolling mill, where new methods of making bars of iron were being developed. He saw with prophetic eye the future importance of the railroads, which he pictured as stretching across the vast miles of European Russia and Central Asia. Yet he felt it incumbent on him, since he was speaking on a Phi Beta Kappa occasion, to apologize for the introduction of his first mention of these things in the words, Gentlemen, excuse me, whilst on an occasion so purely literary, I draw an illustration from a thought suggested by an invention in the branch of mechanic art. Who today would deem it necessary to apologize for a men tion of the mechanical application of the electron theory to the doing of some amazing modern task, or would omit reference to airplanes or the radio as unfitting of inclusion in the thinking of a Phi Beta Kappa mind?

With a long and prophetic eye toward the future, Judge Durfee saw the impor tance of the steam-engine, harnessed both on land and on sea.

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