Word: railroads
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...taken and passed in these subjects in school or college may qualify by passing the entrance examination on June 19. Engineering 4c, Geodetic Surveying; counts as a half-course. Preparation required: a grade of at least C in Engineering 4a and a knowledge of spherical trigonometry. Engineering 4d, Railroad Surveying; counts as one course. Preparation required: satisfactory pass in Engineering 4a. Engineering 5b, Elementary Statics; counts as a half-course. Preparation required; satisfactory pass in Engineering 1e or an equivalent. Engineering 5e, Elementary Kinematics and Kinetics. Preparation required: satisfactory pass in Engineering 5b, and the first half of Engineering...
...Curtis for Converse at 5. This shift also worked to advantage. The two eights paddled as far as the three-mile mark together and for a time the Freshmen held their own with the University crew, both rowing the same stroke. On the last mile to the railroad bridge the University eight went on alone, raising the stroke gradually to 32. This last stretch was some of the best rowing the crew has done this season...
Technology, therefore, ceased considering the Riverbank site; but the fact that Cambridge might have secured that institution, and thereby added directly to the taxable value of the land between the Riverbank and the Grand Junction Railroad, began to impress the intelligent business men of Cambridge. Nothing could be more desired than that the Cambridge side of the Back Bay Basin, on which millions of dollars have been spent, should be occupied by monumental buildings, worthy of the location and of the city. Here was the opportunity, when an institution of great reputation throughout the United States would erect such buildings...
...three four-oared crews. None of the eights went out. The four-oars travelled fairly well and seemed to be about up to the usual standard of Yale fours. In the afternoon two eights and the same fours were again on the river and all rowed down to the Railroad Bridge and back in easy stretches...
...over four months. At that time Professor Moore was able to investigate the new educational movement in China and attend the hundredth anniversary of the establishment by Morison of the first Christian Mission in China. Four weeks in Japan and the return trip via Vladivostok, the Trans-Siberian Railroad, and Paris, completed the journey...