Word: railroad
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Scholarship in memory of the graduate of that name of the Class of 1897. For the duration of the war the income is to be applied for such war measures as the University may desire. After the war the income is to be used to support a scholarship in Railroad...
...laying railroad tracks...
Several undergraduates are now petitioning the Department of Engineering Sciences to reopen the Engineering Camp at Squam Lake, N. H., this summer. Last year no camp was held on account of the war, but in previous summers an eleven-weeks' course in plane, topographic and railroad surveying has been given at Squam Lake. Credit for one and one-half courses is allowed by the College Office for the completion of the eleven-weeks' work...
...developed the military airplane to a remarkable extent, and in so doing has built up the commercial machine. Numerous attempts were made before 1914 to establish aerial postal routes, or freight service between places with poor railroad connection. A project has lately appeared to start such a system between London and Paris. Although crossing the Channel was an unusual feat eight years ago, the recent progress in aviation has made that same trip an every-day occurrence. We have read that the governor of Rhode Island traveled by this method when he visited France not long ago. What was seldom...
...accomplish should not be held up by a few small boys in Congress who, for almost a year, have been making faces at the administration's proposals before they have been put through. Such antics are bad for both Congress and the nation; in the case of the new railroad legislation may they for once be avoided...