Word: plane
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Squam Lake, N. H., which will this year be in charge of Mr. H. J. Hughes, instructor in hydraulics and sanitary engineering, will open on Saturday, June 13, and continue eleven weeks, closing on Saturday, August 29. The first six weeks will be taken up by the course in plane surveying, the next three weeks will be given to railroad surveying, and the last two weeks to geodetic surveying...
...today Professor W. M. Davis will explain the use of the Foucicault pendulum hung in the well of the staircase from the roof of the geological wing of the University Museum. He will show how the latitude may be determined by the apparent deviation of the pendulum from its plane of swinging which is caused by the rotation of the earth...
...usual. About ninety men enrolled for the course, less than forty of whom had the course prescribed. The increasing popularity of the camp as a means of spending the summer makes new buildings and accommodations necessary every year. The work of the camp was divided into three courses, plane, geodetic, and railroad surveying. The first two subjects occupied about two weeks each and the last about three weeks. The camp property, three hundred acres on the cast shore of Squam Lake, is especially fitted for practice in surveying on account of the variety in the topography...
...Definite plane for the erection of the new Cambridge hotel, which the proposed widening of DeWolfe street has delayed since last fall, will probably be made early in June. Within two weeks the question of widening the street should be settled and then the stock company in charge of building the new hotel will immediately make final decisions...
...work will consist of courses in plane, geodetic, and railroad surveying, all of which are prescribed for civil and mining engineers; but all three may be elected by any student who has been a resident of the College for one year, without any extra charge for tuition. Students from outside colleges will be admitted to the courses only on payment of a small tuition fee. The time will be divided as follows: plane surveying for the first six weeks; geodetic surveying, with night work, for the next two; and railroad surveying for the last three weeks...