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That is in formal words, but for your information the effect is to introduce the Office of past president, this officer bcing a member of the Executive Committee, and also to State how the new President is to be nominated.
The finał item was the datę and place of the next Conference. The Executive Committee accepted the invitation of the National Research Council of Canada, on behalf of the Canadian National Society, to hołd the Sixth Conference inSeptember 1965 in Montreal.
Le President : La parole est a M. Legget.
M. R.F. Legget (Canada) : It is my great honour to confirm, on behalf of the Government of Canada, through the National Research Council of Canada, the invitation which you have just hcard from our Secretary. As you have heard, the meeting is proposed for September 1965, this month being chosen because of the great heat of our summers despite the fact that Canada has been called “ Our Lady of the Snows ”. The meeting is proposed for Montreal, the metropolis of Canada, a city that we believe is the second largest French-speaking city in the world. It lies in what is known as New France. We are therefore in the happy position of being a bilingual country.
Au nom de tous les ouvriers canadiens de mecaniąue du sol j’exprime a tous les ouvriers en mecaniąue du sol du monde et je vous exprime, Monsieur le President, tous nos souhaits de bienvenue, qui vous attendent a Montreal.
Le President : La parole est a M. Skempton.
M. Skempton : I now wish to take the opportunity of saying a few words about our new President, Prof. Arthur Casagrande.
He has been working in soil mechanics sińce 1926, when he joined Prof. Terzaghi as an assistant, first of all at Washington, D.C. and a little later at M.I.T., Cambridge, (Mass.). He continued to work with Terzaghi until the latter left the States for Europę in 1929. Prof. Casagrande remained at M.I.T. for a little longer, but in 1932 he moved to Harvard University, and that university, as you know, is still graced by his presence.
During the early period in soil mechanics, a period which I think we might consider to be defined as beginning with the publication of Erdbaumechanik and ending with the holding of the First Conference, Casagrande played a part second only to Terzaghi himself, and the papers which he published during that period — and, of course, subseąuently, — are now very widely recognised as among the classics in our subject.
You will also know that it was Prof. Casagrande who organised the first of our International Conferences, and I think perhaps we might say almost that the Society itself owes its existence to him.
In addition to his famę as a research worker, Casagrande has a world-wide reputation as a consulting engineer and he is a very fine teacher, perhaps the finest teacher in the world in our subject.
I think that there is no need for me to say anything morę than that we are extraordinarily grateful to him for accepting election as President, and that we feel very honoured indeed that we have a man of such great distinction as our next President.
Le President : La parole est a M. Casagrande.
M. A. Casagrande : With feelings of deep gratitude mixed with nostalgia, I accept from you, Prof. Skempton, the office of the President of the International Society of Soil Mechanics and Foundation Engineering.
President Skempton, you have conductcd this office with admirable skill and enthusiasm sińce the conclusion of the
Fourth Conference in London where you, in turn, accepted this office from Karl Terzaghi. I recall how you announced to us at that occasion the welcome decision by the Executive Committee that Prof. Terzaghi was elected Honorary President of our Society for life. In his “ message ” to our Conference, which you have read to us during the opening session, Prof. Terzaghi explained why he could not be with us. I am taking the liberty to supplement his remarks by giving you further information about Prof. Terzaghi from my own observations, because it is my privilege to visit him at his home freąuently.
Two days before I left for Europę, I brought to him the First Volume of the Proceedings of this Conference which had just arrived at his Harvard Office. Prof. Terzaghi ex-pressed his pleasure about the appearance of this volume. Then there were minutes of silence while he was leafing through the pages. He did not reveal his thoughts, but I sensed his deep rcgret that he could not travel with me to Paris. While I was watching Prof. Terzaghi*s face, my own thoughts turned back a ąuarter of a century when our International Society was bom and Prof. Terzaghi was elected its first President. And then this thought crossed my mind : What would be today the State of development of soil mechanics if Terzaghi had chosen another field of human endea-vour for his remarkable abilities ?
When I started out by saying that my feelings are mixed with nostalgia, I know that many of you are eąually conscious of the large void that Prof. Terzaghi’s absence has created in our midst. Fortunately I can report to you that Prof. Terzaghi’s health is relatively good, and that he is working intensely on his book on Engineering Geology. Recent visitors to his home have remarked to me that they find his mind as sharp, his humor as penctrating, and his memory for details as keen as ever.
President Skempton, you have said very kind words about me for which I am very grateful. With the help of the compe-tent Executive Comittee, I will try my best to carry on in the high tradition which my predecessors have established for this office.
Four years from now, after almost thirty years, the Conference will return to the Continent of its birth. Our Canadian friends are facing a difficult task to make their Conference come up to the high standard of this Paris Conference, the success of which has been well described earlier by Skempton. I merely wish to add my congratulations to evcryone of our French colleagues who have worked so hard on its organization and who have now justification to be proud of what they have accomplished.
In closing, may I express the hope that I will see all of you at our Sixth Conference !
Le President : La parole est a M. le President Caąuot.
M. Caquot : Monsieur le Conseiller d’Źtat, Monsieur le President, Mesdames, Messieurs, j’ai Pagreable devoir a la fin de ce Congres de remercier tout d’abord ceux qui ont donnę les moyens necessaires pour permettre le travail en commun de plus de mille ingenieurs.
Ce sont, en premier lieu, les pouvoirs publics, et particu-lierement le Ministre des Travaux publics et des Transports qui nous a aides directement et aussi indirectement par ses services, et specialement par le Conseil General des Ponts et Chaussees et les ingenieurs de ce corps de 1’Etat dont bcau-coup furent des congressistes. M. le Conseiller d'Etat Cahen-SaWador voudra bien transmettre l’expression de notre reconnaissance au Ministre des Travaux publics.
Le Ministre de la Construction, le Ministre des Affaires Etrangeres, le Ministre de 1’Agriculture, le Ministre de ITn-dustrie, le Ministre de 1’Education nationale nous ont egale-ment accorde leur precieux concours.
Parallelement, les grandes societes nationales se sont forte-
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