Word: civilizations
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Hampton Institute was founded by General S. C. Armstrong shortly after the Civil War for the purpose of providing a means of education for the negroes and Indians of the South and Middle West. Its graduates now number about eleven hundred men and women, one of the most noted of whom is Mr. Booker T. Washington, president of the Tuskegee School at Tuskegee, Alabama...
...Engineering Journal, which has just been issued, contains five articles, all of them of chiefly technical interest. The first article, on "The Wachusett Dam" of the Metropolitan Water System, by Mr. C. W. Smith, who has had immediate charge at the dam, is reprinted from a lecture before the Civil Engineering Club. Messrs. Densmore and LeClear, the engineers who designed the heating and ventilating system, electric wiring, and plumbing of Robinson Hall contribute an interesting, illustrated account of the somewhat unusual features of the heating and ventilating system in that building. Professor C. A. Adams continues his article on "Armature...
...United States Civil Service Commission announces examinations to be held in Boston on February 24 and 25, for the following positions...
...United States Civil Service Commission announces examinations to be held in Boston, February 3, 4, 24 and 26 for the following positions...
...Blake will deliver a lecture on "The Charles River Dam and Some of its Problems," under the auspices of the Engineering Society in the Lecture Room of Pierce Hall at 8 o'clock this evening. Mr. Blake is a civil engineer, and has designed one of the plans which have been under consideration by the Dam Commission appointed by Governor Crane to present a report to the Legislature on the advisability of such a structure...