 | Charles Fisk Beach - Corporation law - 1891 - 886 pages
...chess, and checkers, and other lawful games of the kind, but which excludes all drinks, and has no for promoting the acquisition of that species of knowledge...which constitutes the profession of a civil engineer. The secretary's affidavit stated that the whole property of the institution was, and always bad been,... | |
 | Electrical engineering - 1893 - 630 pages
...by reciting that the object of that society is "the general advancement of mechanical science, and more particularly for promoting the acquisition of...which constitutes the profession of a civil engineer, being the art of directing the great sources of power in nature for the use and convenience of man."... | |
 | Sir Norman Lockyer - Electronic journals - 1894 - 1122 pages
...Institution of Civil Engineers is denned as "A society for the general advancement of Mechanical Science, and more particularly for promoting the acquisition of...which constitutes the profession of a Civil Engineer, being the art of directing the great sources of power in nature for the use and convenience of man,... | |
 | British Association for the Advancement of Science - Science - 1894 - 1272 pages
...by reciting that the object of that society is ' the general advancement of mechanical science, aud more particularly for promoting the acquisition of...which constitutes the profession of a civil engineer, being the art of directing the great sources of power in nature for the use and convenience of man.'... | |
 | Institution of Civil Engineers (Great Britain) - Civil engineering - 1896 - 598 pages
...the object for which, according to the Charter of 1828, the Institution itself was founded, namely, " The acquisition of that species of knowledge which constitutes the profession of a Civil Engineer, being the art of directing the Great Sources of Power in Nature for the use and convenience of Man."... | |
 | Engineering - 1897 - 528 pages
...appears the following : — " A society established for the general advancement of Mechanical Science and more particularly for promoting the acquisition of...which constitutes the profession of a civil engineer, being the an; of directing the great sources of power in nature for the use and convenience of man."... | |
 | Chemistry - 1898 - 424 pages
...the Institution of Civil Engineers, on the other hand, is not merely for the general advance, ment of Mechanical Science ; it is " more particularly...extent a body exercising administrative functions with respeâ to a particular profession all over the Kingdom. Obviously therefore the considerations which... | |
 | Taxation - 1899 - 674 pages
...the purpose of the Institution as being " for the general advancement of mechanical " science, and more particularly for promoting the acquisition of...knowledge which constitutes the profession of " a civil entnneer." I cannot see any reason to doubt that the eminent men who founded the Institution, and who... | |
 | John Hopkinson - Dielectrics - 1901 - 380 pages
...of Civil Engineers is defined as "A society for the general advancement of Mechanical Science, and more particularly for promoting the acquisition of...which constitutes the profession of a Civil Engineer, being the art of directing the great sources of power in Nature for the use and convenience of man,... | |
 | John Hopkinson - Dielectrics - 1901 - 378 pages
...of Civil Engineers is defined as " A society for the general advancement of Mechanical Science, and more particularly for promoting the acquisition of...which constitutes the profession of a Civil Engineer, being the art of directing the great sources of power in Nature for the use and convenience of man,... | |
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A society for the general advancement of Mechanical Science, and more particularly for promoting the acquisition of that species of knowledge which constitutes the profession of a Civil Engineer, being the art of directing the great sources of power in... 
