Word: builder
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Ewell, master-builder of the new laboratory, and former master-builder of the Agassix and Peabody Museums, Matthews Hall, Memorial Hall, and Robinson Hall, states that the new building will be the best constructed edifice belonging to the University. Special care must be taken in construction to have the building fully meet the requirements of a high grade chemical research laboratory. One of the features of the laboratory is the four concrete piers which are entirely apart from the foundations, so that no vibrations can disturb the delicate instruments used in research work...
...guaranteed speed is 16 miles an hour but his was exceeded in the official trial in the Basin last week, when the boat covered a measured mile at the rate of 18.6 miles per hour with four people aboard, and at the builder's trial at Bath, Maine, when the boat reached 20.6 miles per hour with two people aboard. Running at this speed the launch can be handled easily. The launch draws very little water, and the design is unique in that the boat does not leave a wake, sufficient to disturb an eight-oared crew, even when...
Professor A. B. Hart '80 was the next speaker. Under the head of "Bismarck as a Commonwealth Builder," he spoke of the latter's main purpose, that of converting the many German states into one central unified whole. Three reasons may be given for the ultimate success of this greatest of nineteenth century diplomats in this stupendous undertaking: first, the class to which Bismarck belonged was such that if once convinced of the usefulness of a project, it would pursue it to the end; second, Bismarck himself had a glorious vision of what could be accomplished; third, Bismarck's remarkable...
...celebrate the 209th anniversary of the founding of the Kingdom of Prussia and the 49th anniversary of the founding of the/German Empire. Professor Eduard Meyer, the German exchange professor, will speak on "The Significance of the Day," Professor A. B. Hart '80 will speak on "Bismarck as a Commonwealth Builder," and Professor Kuno Francke, Professor W. B. Munro, and Major Bigelow of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology will speak informally. This meeting is open to members of the Verein and friends brought by them...