Word: mines
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...Rickard was born in Italy and educated in Russia and England, graduating from the Royal School of Mines in London in 1885. After his graduation, he went to Colorado and in two years became superintendent of the Union mine at San Andreas, California. In 1889 he went to Australia and for two years visited and studied most of the important mining districts in New Zealand, Queensland, New South Wales. Victoria and Tasmania. He then returned to Colorado and carried on a general practice as a consulting engineer. In 1895 he was appointed state geologist of Colorado and held-this honorary...
...sort of man who becomes the beneficiary of unfair methods or society influence. The graduates who were coaching the ends thought from the moment he began to play that he was the most promising candidate for that position they had ever seen. They said so to friends of mine long before any of us who were on the outside knew that Filley had any chance of making the team. It was a serious mistake, and unfair to Filley and the College, to suppose that he could become a finished end with the little practice he had. But it is absurd...
...central feature of the plot of this year's Pi Eta play, the "Will-o'-the-Wisp," is the exploitation among the gullible citzens of Freedom Junction, Maine, of the "Will-o'-the-Wisp" mine. The first act opens with a celebration of May-day at a country fair. The centre of attraction is the "Exhibition of the World's Wonders," the marvels of which, I. Will Ketcham, itinerant showman and promoter, is impressing on all the country folk. Ketcham's chief concern, however, is to dispose of the stock of the mine. He succeeds in interesting Caleb Sweet, leading...
...second act begins a month later. Swift has found that the mine will pay well if developed, and the $10,000 necessary for this he gets indirectly from Ikklehopper by working on the affections of the widow, until she consents to use her influence on the Jew. Swift makes up Sweet's losses with the proceeds of the sale of the mine, and is engaged to Priscilla. The widow, disgusted at this fickleness, spurns the Jew and goes over to Caleb Sweet, while Ketcham has to be reconciled with Belle Equestria...
...mining departments of Harvard, Yale, Columbia and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology will give a joint summer session for the study of practical mining during the summer of 1904. For this purpose a mine will be leased, probably in Colorado, for about six weeks beginning June 25, where the men will be given practical experience in mining engineering...