Word: civilizations
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Professor H. J. Hughes has been assigned by President Lowell to confer with the municipal water board of Cambridge. This appointment was made in accordance with Mayor Brooks's request for an expert to consult with the water board. Professor Hughes is assistant professor of civil engineering and conducts the engineering camp at Squam Lake each summer...
...course has been surveyed in the Basin for the use of the University crews by Aspinwall & Lincoln, civil engineers, of Boston. The course is one and three-quarters miles long and may be increased by 500 feet if necessary. Each half-mile will be marked by brass plates set in the sea-walls on both sides of the river...
...results of this movement toward direct popular government have been important and good. The employee can now collect fair damages from his employer; in civil procedure the defendant must now convince one-fourth of the jury that he is innocent; judicial decisions cannot be reversed for trivial errors; railroads are kept in control by the club of the initiative and referendum; state officers are made to do their duties by the recall, stationed as a guard over them; a larger percentage of intelligent voters has come forward to run the government with wisdom; experts are planning and arguing...
...honor and admire. Scientist or jurist, it is, after all, the moral qualities that count the most, especially when one looks back over the perspective of a long life. If Dr. Bowditch had not had the staunch character that made him so good a cavalry officer in the Civil War, and the patriotism that led him to take up arms in that long contest; if he had not had the loyalty, generosity and powers of sympathy and of affection that made him so good a husband and father, so true a friend, so indispensable an ally, his colleagues might indeed...
Besides these remarks, there were speeches by F. P. Stearns h.'05, past president of the American Society of Civil Engineers; Mr. W. E. McClintock, chairman of the Chelsea Board of Control; and L. W. Perrin 2G., president of the Engineering Society...