Word: experts
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...hands of the Board of Directors. Our Society has not escaped entirely the dangers that beset industrial concerns or trading concerns that are carried on by democratic bodies. Those dangers are: unwillingness to pay the salaries that will retain men of distinguished efficiency; unwillingness to trust the expert; and the belief that the man put into office by accident, or through the activity of an insignificant minority, can intervene intelligently, and is in duty bound to intervene in matters of detail...
...reports from the engineers who have been holding conferences for the past month in connection with the proposed dam across the Charles River will probably be presented to the committee the latter part of this week. The expert engineers have been examined by Mr. J.R. French of Providence, who has recently been appointed head of the water works in New York. The petition that the time be extended has been granted by the State Committee on metropolitan affairs, so that the report of the Dam Commission will not be presented until the next session of the legislature...
...shooting team will compete in a dual shoot with Yale this afternoon at 2 o'clock in Shuetzen Park, New Haven. Both teams will be composed of five men and each man will shoot at fifty birds, thrown from Expert traps at unknown angles. Although Yale has a very strong team this year, the match should be close. The Harvard team which leaves for New Haven at 8 o'clock this morning is composed as follows: L. E. Hilliard 3L., G. M. Phelps '02, E. E. du Pont '03, P. Bancroft '03, and one of the following: H. L. Corbett...
...first of a series of private conferences by expert engineers, representing those who are opposed to the construction of the Charles River dam, will be held today at the rooms of the committee, 14 Beacon street. From the material gathered at these conferences, together with the great mass of testimony already received, the committee will make out its report, which is intended to be complete by next December. Definite action upon the proposed dam will probably not come until the session...
...Shooting Club has ordered a Mangar trap from the Chamberlain Cartridge Company of Cleveland. The new trap will permit six men instead of four to shoot in a squad and will throw nearly fifty per cent more birds in an afternoon than the present arrangement of five expert traps...