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...Discharged to enter: Ambulance, Medical Reserve, etc., 84 Avlation, 61 National Guard, 29 Naval Reserve, 72 Regular Army, 9 Signal Corps, 26 Other branches of Federal Service, 47 Discharged to enter first Officers' Training Camps: Fort Benjamin Harrison, 5 Fort Des Moines, 3 Fort Meyer, 5 Fort Niagara, 11 Fort Oglethorpe, 8 Plattsburg, 224 Presidio, 6 Fort Riley, 4 Fort Logan H. Roots, 3 Fort Snelling, 2 Fort Sheridan, 9 Other Federal Camps...
...present, six stations are to be established. One will be at the works of the New England Gas and Coke Company in Somerville, where the fundamental theoretical and practical principles of fuels and combustion will be studied. At Niagara Falls, at the plant of the Exolon Manufacturing Company, there will be opportunities for work in electro-chemistry and high temperature furnaces. The application of electricity at low temperatures, and the general principles involved in paper making will be illustrated at the Eastern Manufacturing Company in Bangor, Me. The Atlas Cement Company, of Allentown, Pa., will afford extraordinarily good advantages...
Several members of the University are making plans for going to France in the service of the American Red Cross, and C. Higginson '17 left last Saturday on the S. S. "Niagara" for England, although France will be his ultimate destination...
...Living Room of the Union this evening at 8 o'clock on "Water Power and Man Power." His talk will be illustrated by stereopticon slides. Mr. Cooper is one of the foremost engineers of the country. Among other feats, he drove a tunnel under the Horseshoe Falls at Niagara, which was considered an impossible task. Perhaps his most important exploit was the planning and building of the great water power dam across the Mississippi at Keokuk, Iowa. The dam is nine-tenths of a mile long, being made up of one hundred and nineteen arched spans...
...Living Room tomorrow evening at 8 o'clock, on "Water Power and Man Power." Mr. Cooper is one of the greatest engineers of America, and is very efficient as an organizer. He has carried through many important projects, including the driving of a tunnel under the Horseshoe Falls at Niagara, which many scientists declared impossible. Mr. Cooper's greatest feat, however, was the construction of the huge water power dam across the Mississippi at Keokuk, Iowa. The dam is made of concrete, and extends nine-tenths of a mile between Iowa and Illinois. The power is generated in thirty special...