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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Cumnock. It was decided that the two captains should go to Springfield and arrange definitely about the grounds. Gill and Cumnock spent a day in Springfield, and had the field staked out. A car penter gave his price for building temporary grand stands and a contractor roughly estimated the cost of putting the field in condition to play the game. Until the field is surveyed the exact cost cannot be obtained. It is expected that the whole expenditure will be about $700 and that amount will probably be raised by the citizens and hotels of Springfield...
...chance for hydraulic engineers who understand the construction of irrigation works. The United States Survey is limited to topographical work and opportunities for promotion are rare. A lucrative field presents itself to anyone who makes a specialty of cements which are manufactured in this country only at a great cost. Electrical engineering also presents a wide field. Whether a man intends to be a geologist or an engineer he should, during at least two of his summers, devote his time to actual practice. A man who has had no practical work in geology often finds difficulty in applying his knowledge...
...ground for the new gymnasium at Yale has been purchased and work will be soon begun on the building. The ground bought has a frontage on Elm street of 138 feet by 2.36 feet deep, and cost about $30.000. The sum of the subscriptions up to date is $130,000. which leaves $100,000 for the building. More than this will, however, be probably spent, as the building, as designed, will cost about $150,000, but it is thought the deficiency can be made up by next fall. The building will be three stories in height, with a high studded...
...American shipping interest can be restored without the cost of subsidies by a revision of the navigation law; primarily, by a revision in favor of the free purchase and ownership of vessels for foreign trade.- Well's Our Merchant Marine pp. 95-128; North American Review, vol. 142, pp. 481-484; Codman in Shipbuilders and Commerce phamphlets 4 and 2; Atlantic...
...Subsidies are objectionable, (a) artificial and temporizing expedients-Well's Our Merchant Marine, pp. 136-139. (b) have proved failures.- Well's, 138-140, 162-165, 113 115; (c) would be a tremendous cost.- Well's, p. 140; Codman, pp. 14, 18, 25; Congressional Globe, 1869-70, part 5, p. 3786; (d) profit would come wholly from subsidies.- Well's, pp. 140-142 (e) have proved and always will prove inducements to corrupt legislature.- Well's p. 139, Cong. Globe, 1869-70, part 5, p. 3860; (f) benefit one party at the expense of the whole country.- Well...