Word: canal
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...George Alvin Loud, congressman from the tenth district of Michigan, will deliver an illustrated lecture on "The Panama Canal" in Emerson J this afternoon at 4.30 o'clock...
...Loud, congressman from the tenth district of Michigan, will deliver an illustrated lecture on "The Panama Canal" in Emerson J, Thursday afternoon at 4.30 o'clock. This lecture will be open to members of the University only...
...lecture last night upon the Panama Canal. F. Bishop 2G. showed not only the possibilities, difficulties and characteristics of the canal itself, but also the progress made by the government in reclaiming the jungle and making it sanitary and habitable for Americans and Europeans...
...defended the present lock canal system, saying that a sea level waterway was impracticable owing to the great depth of cuts thereby necessitated and the consequent danger of overwhelming sliders, the difference in tide level between the two oceans, and last but not least, the great river which would have to be cared for and which now furnishes water for high levels, water power, and electricity,--the last for towing ships through the canal and for running the broad-gauge railway left by the old De Lesseps Company...
...Bishop will speak on the social and engineering side of the work, out-lining the history, development, and present status of the Panama question, by means of lantern slides taken in the Canal Zone by Mr. F. E. Farnsworth. Mr. Bishop is the son of Mr. J. B. Bishop, secretary of the Isthmian Canal Commission, a well-known authority on present conditions in Panama. The lecture is open to all members of the University...