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...Engineers' Night", to be given the evening in Room 110 of Pierce Hall 8 o'clock by the Harvard Engineering Society. The remainder of the evening entertainment, which is open to the faculty and members of the Engineering School, consists of several numbers by a jazz band, banjo acrobat, and a quatet, followed by a reading of Swedish poetry...
...electric are and incandescent light grow from a very doubtful laboratory experiment to a public necessity. He saw the electric street car grow from an impossible nuisance to the universal method of street transportation. He saw the bicycle develop from a great high wheel which required an acrobat to ride, into a popular device which nearly everybody knows how to ride. He saw the telephone when it was one of the curiosities exhibited in a dime museum along with an assortment of other freaks. He saw the automobile spring from what was considered a silly mechanical experiment to a great...