Word: railroad
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...these the University will receive a bequest of Boston & Maine railroad common stock to endow the Nathaniel Ropes Professorship of Political Economy. If, after the endowment of the professorship, any surplus remains, it will go to the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology. A second bequest from the same source provides for the establishment of the Nathaniel Ropes, Jr., Fund, the purpose of which is not stated...
...answer the many parents of incoming students who are agitated on the subject of "board", An ampler history of that foundation dining club ("Thayer Commons", not the Mayer Club) and that "one-story wooden building on the site of the present Law School", which began life as a frivolous railroad station (the "terminal" of the road which ran out to the willows on Holmes Field and stopped there) and by some is reported to be passing a respectable old age as a stable for the President's horses, would have made the article still more interesting. The illustrations are well...
Review of Reviews--"Psychology of Railroad Accidents," by C. R. Keyes...
...time for Engineering 4d, Railroad Engineering, has been extended to five weeks instead of three; and the time for Engineering 4c has been extended to three weeks instead of two. Students in civil engineering and mining who have previously been required to take Engineering 4c and 4d will now be required to take only 4d. Men who wish to elect Engineering 4c may do so and can go to Camp a second summer if they so desire; but no one is required to take Engineering 4c. Such parts of the course as are of special importance to students in civil...
...been appointed by Professor Hollis to report next Commencement upon means of effecting an organization of Harvard graduates interested in engineering, as proposed at the recent dinner of the Engineering Society: Professor L. J. Johnson '87, chairman, Mr. G. S. Rice '70, chief engineer of the Rapid Transit Railroad Commission of New York City, F. W. Dean '75, and J. F. Vaughn '95, both of Boston, F. L. Gilman '95, chief engineer of the Western Electric Company of New York City, H. M. Hale '04, assistant engineer of the Rapid Transit Railroad Commission of New York City...