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...Brown '90, assistant in the chemical laboratory, has been appointed government chemist at the Naval Torpedo Station. Newport. R. I., at a salary of $2500 a year...
HARVARD ELECTRIC CLUB.- There will be a meeting of the Harvard Electric Club at its room on Friday at 7.30. Lieut. J. B. Cahoon, now with the Thomson Houston Electric Co., formerly at the Newport Torpedo Station, will tell some interesting news about the latest railway motors...
...strictly theoretical importance, this science has a very practical side. Of late Berthollot has been working for the French government in applying the principles of the science to the study of explosives. Much valuable knowledge has thus been obtained about smokeless powder, dynamite, etc. Also at the government torpedo station at Newport in this country this science has been used in studying explosives...
Judson, '80, after leaving college, entered the U. S. Army. At present he is in the engineering courps, and is stationed at one of the forts in New York harbor for the purpose of making an especial study of the modern torpedo system. He holds the rank of first lieutenant...
...letter, just received by a gentleman at Hartford from a friend in China, tells what the students, lately recalled from this country, are doing. Fifty-one have been distributed as follows: Twenty to the telegraph office, eight to the medical school, ten to the torpedo school, seven to the mining school, four to the customs department, and two to the government docks. The rest, about forty in number, are in the naval school in Tientsin. A letter from one of the students indicates that the official wrath has been somewhat appeased by the discovery that the boys have not foresworn...