MR. W. B. PARSONS IN UNION

Mr. William Barclay Parsons, C.E., LL.D., will deliver the last in the series of six Union lectures on professions, in the Living Room of the Union this evening at 8 o'clock. The lecture will be on "Civil Engineering as a Career," and will be illustrated with stereopticon views. An exception to the usual Union rule is being made for this series on professions and, in consequence, tonight's lecture will be open to all members of the University.

Mr. Parsons graduated from Columbia University in 1879, and received the degree of C.E. three years later. In 1898 he went to China, and spent a year there building the Canton-Hankow Railway. From 1894 to 1904 he was chief engineer of the Rapid Transit Commission of New York, and acting in this capacity, constructed the whole underground transit system of the city. In 1904 he was made a member of the Isthmian Canal Commission and in 1905 went to Panama as a member of the Consulting Board of Engineers. He has also been a member of the Royal Commission of London Traffic since 1904, and last year he undertook the construction of the Cape Cod canal. In 1909, he received the degree of LL.D. from Columbia, of which University he has been a trustee since 1898.

He is a member of the American Society of Civil Engineers, and of the Institution of Civil Engineers in Great Britain.