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Professor Swain has been for over 20 years consulting engineer of the Massachusetts State Railroad Commissioners, and in that capacity has built a number of bridges, besides constructing the Boston subways. He has been a member of the Boston Transit Commission since its organization in 1894 and has done much to simplify traffic conditions in Boston. He has also studied the subject of the conservation of the natural resources of the nation, and last spring was appointed by President Roosevelt a member of the national commission in charge of that work. He is well known as an author of scientific...
...Profession" in the Living Room of the union tomorrow evening at 8 o'clock. After being graduated from the Institute of Technology in 1877, Professor Swain studied engineering abroad. He has been an engineer of the Massachusetts Railroad Commission for 20 years, a member of the Boston Transit Commission for 15 years, and engineer for various bridges across the Connecticut and Merrimac Rivers...
...subscribe to the fund for building Symphony Hall. In 1902 he was the only representative chosen from New England as Trustee of the Carnegie Institution at Washington, which was founded for the purpose of pensioning retired college professors. He was also one of the city's first rapid transit commissioners, being appointed to that office by Mayor Matthews in 1892. Major Higginson has long been a leader in all public movements in Boston...
Engineering--Thursday, March 11. G. F. Swain, S.B., professor of civil engineering in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, member of the Boston Transit Commission, engineer of the Massachusetts Railroad Commission...
...late William Henry Baldwin, Jr., '85, secretary of the CRIMSON, and chairman of his Class Committee, was president of the Long Island Railroad at the time of his death, and an officer or director in over forty other companies, including the Rapid Transit Subway Construction Co., the Pennsylvania, New York and Long Island Railroad, the New York City Street Railway Co., the Corn Exchange Bank, and the Equitable Trust Co. He was a trustee of Tuskegee Institute and of the Southern Education Board, and held the same position in Smith College and the University of Tennessee. Roger Sherman Greene...