A Promising President

Stanford University, Member American Institute 0/ Mining Engineers, Mining and Metallurgical Society of America, Soci td dca ingdni urs Clvils de France, American Institute of Civil Engineers, 

Stanford University, Member American Association for the Advancement of Science, The National Geographical Society, Royal Scottish Geographical Society, etc., etc. 

FIGURE 30. Title page from the first English translation of Agricola s 1556 De Re Metallica, written and tested for scientific accuracy by engineer Herbert Hoover, the fu-ture President of the United States, and his wife Lou Henry Hoover, the first female geology graduate of Stanford University. 

How ironic, then, that Herbert Clark Hoover, thirty-first president of the United States (1928-1932), is now principally remembered for his failure to ease the hardships of the Great Depression. Very strict ethical values inculcated in early childhood and reinforced by his own very early independence (and subsequent success) made widespread federal aid, particularly to the urban unemployed, anathema to him. He was widely regarded as distant from the suffering populace. And so, sadly enough, hooverville, a shanty town populated by the unemployed poor, is a word both more recent and more widely remembered than hooverize.  

Hoover and L.H. Hoover, Georgius Agricola De Re Metallic (translated from the first Latin edition of 1556), The Mining Magazine, London, 1912. 

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