Word: eatonized
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Voting will begin tomorrow noon at polls which will be opened in the common rooms of each of the three Freshman halls. The poll watchers from 12 to 2 o'clock will be Dudley Merrith '26, A. J. Cassatt '27, and F. McC. Eaton '27. From 6 to 8 o'clock in the evening the polls will be watched by W. R. Wister '27, G. McN. Gates '27 and J. M. Gates '27. These men, in addition to watching the polls during the hours named, will count the votes and announce the result of the balloting on Friday morning...
Frederick McCurdy Eaton '27 of Akron, Ohio, was appointed 150-pound crew manager while Lee Yates Ward '27 of Rochester, N. Y., was appointed manager of the class crew. The last two appointments are for one year only...
...Amos Eaton and Stephen Van Rensselaer are two outstanding names in the history of the Institute. The latter was Patroon of Rensselaerwick and a member of Congress. A generous and loyal patron of progress, he | laid the cornerstone for civil engineering in the U. S. by founding what was nominally a school for "the sons and daughters* of farmers and mechanics...
...Amos Eaton introduced to the school Van Rensselaer had founded new methods of study and new purposes. It was he who in 1835 grasped the importance of the industrial revolution the U. S. was then undergoing, took upon himself the title of Professor of Civil Engineering and presented four young men for the C. E. degree...
...early as Professor Eaton's day, Rensselaer graduates went pioneering in the field of scientific agriculture. California and Wisconsin were the first two states benefited. Later, Rensselaer men started the departments of Botany, Zoology, Physics, Chemistry, Geology, Mineralogy and Astronomy at such universities as Iowa, Michigan, Harvard, Cornell, Johns Hopkins. Their greatest names, however, are in engineering annals. Rensselaer-trained were...