Show PROFESSOR R. R R. R LYMAN ACCORDED RECOGNITION It is not without cons considerable pride that the University students hear of the recognition of Richard R. R Lyman Professor of Civil Engineering by th the Better Roads magazine In the November November November No No- vember issue this particular publication publication publication tion even gave him precedence over ove several prominent authorities s on Roads and Highways The following clipped from a downtown downtown down down- town paper summarizes very we well what he did and the recognition accorded ac c accorded ac- ac corded him The Man For Fop the Job Better Roads the technical advocate of improved highways devotes a considerable proportion of its current issue to an address by Professor Richard R oR Lyman of Utah This excellent symposium symposium symposium ium on the essentials and fundamentals fundamentals fundamentals funda funda- of road in the west was delivered before the Intermountain Intermountain Intermountain In- In Good Roads convention convention convention conven conven- tion in June at Boise It attracted much attention from the delegates to the meeting and there was general request that it be given even wider publicity among those interested in good roads In addition to the knowledge and experience in road construction construction construction tion he acquired through his profession profession profession pro pro- of civil engineering Mr 11 Lyman has served for some years as member of the state road commission commission commission com com- mission and is the present vice- vice president of that useful body The resultant fund of information he has absorbed equips him as an authority to whom the most expert expert expert ex ex- ex- ex pert of road builders in the United States were glad to listen The subject matter of the address address address ad- ad dress while it de deals ls chiefly with what Utah has done and the way it did it is not so interesting Ito to the people of this state as the fact once more demonstrated that when somebody wants something something something some some- thing well done they search for some Utahn to do it The familiar motto of Miles Standish that when one wants something odne when one wants something done self a habit of life this doughty captain once repudiated to his sorrow has fallen into disuse Nowadays one finds some Utah man to do it for him o 0 |