Word: monitors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Monitor v. Merrimac...
Editor Victor E. Lawson of the Willmar (Minn.) Tribune, in his letter published in TIME, May 24, p. 2, reiterates the fiction that the Confederate ship Merrimac (Virginia) was defeated by, and "fled" from, Ericsson's Monitor...
Ericsson successfully undertook to build an ironclad war vessel in 90 days to cope with the dreaded ironclad Merrimac with which the Confederates hoped to destroy the shipping of the North. In constructing the Monitor, Captain Ericsson invented the turret and its mechanism, and more than 40 patentable ideas which made this armored vessel the precursor of the modern battleship?and all these inventions he presented to the Government for its use without charge. He made for use in this man-of-war the first forged projectile, which he had demonstrated at the proving grounds would penetrate the armor...
That American Universities are not failing their graduates is the opinion of Professor C. B. Piper G. '23 of the Graduate School of Business Administration. In a special article published in the Christian Science Monitor, Professor Piper attempts to refute the charges which have been recently directed against universities on the one hand as being too idealistic and on the other as being too specialized and practical...
Professor Piper, speaking from the standpoint of a man whose place in the business world was exchanged, after long experience, to the university sphere, set forth these views in a conversation with a representative of The Christian Science Monitor during which he commented upon the recent expression, made in Nebraska, of a University graduate who asserted that his university had failed him by providing a background of idealism when he needed a concept of realism; by turning him out, in company with 1000 other young men and women, without practical advice, with minds trained in methods of study, crammed full...