Word: stamped
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...expenditures have been: For books. $1,605.20; for periodicals, $357.85; for stamp and die, $45; total, $2,008.05, leaving a balance on hand April...
...works Hawthorne put the stamp of his own individuality. They mirror the delicacy and airiness of his genius, and are tinged with the deep moral problems and convictions that entered into his life...
...capacity of the stamp mill is about fifteen tons a day. It will not be necessary to use it for more than a week, running six hours a day, but even so the amount of ore required will be considerable. It is probable that stone from local sources, containing pyrites, will be used, and mixed with broken slate, or the crushed stone employed in road building. The expense of transportation is likely to preclude the reduction of commercial gold ore, though it would be more satisfactory for purposes of instruction...
After the stamp mill is completed work will be begun on the assaying laboratory in the new addition to the building. It is hoped that the plant may be installed before next year, so that work with the smelting furnace may be done in connection with the course on the Metallurgy of Iron and Steel, which is given during the first half-year...
Louis How, '95 tells the story of his grandfather, James B. Eads, the engineer, a great man who did not owe his greatness to political success; whose greatness was of such a stamp that he was not allured by suggestions of political influence as a reward for brilliant achievements in another line. He was a man without schooling, but of great genius, and an indefatigable worker; the story of his rise from walking the Mississippi bottom under a diving-bell to the position of the leading hydraulic engineer of his time, and more than any other man, the river...