Word: metallurgist
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Dates: during 1888-1888
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...about 400 students, which "university" consists simply of a school of general literature and a school of technology. Yet this institution grants eight kinds of degrees at graduation: Bachelor of arts, bachelor of science, civil engineer, mechanical engineer, bachelor of science in mining and metallurgy, engineer of mines and metallurgist, electrical engineer and analytical chemist, besides higher degrees of M. A., M. S. and Ph. D. In presence of such a collection of high-sounding names, a modest Harvard man stands aghast until he remembers that their value must be taken with a grain of salt.- Cambridge Tribune...