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Princeton University is building a new chapel, one of the largest university chapels in the world, modeled in collegiate Gothic after King's College Chapel, Cambridge. Workmen went to work on it last fortnight. Their wages and the materials and the fee to Architects Cram and Ferguson, will total $1,750,000. This great sum must come, is coming, from Princeton's alumni and friends. Last week President John Grier Hibben announced that $1,419,000 had come, including $25,000 from a modest, retiring old gentleman who has served Princeton in this way and that longer than any other...
...estimates for riveting with the actual figures for the welding was overwhelmingly in favor of the new method. In labor costs it had saved 23%. Where riveting-gangs of four men would have been required, single operators had manipulated portable arc-welders, thus interfering less with other workmen. The time saved was over 20%. Strength tests showed the welded joints to be 100% strong, as against a 65% to 70% average for riveted joints?that is, the welds were as strong as the girders they joined, often stronger under test stresses. Rivets shear or rip out their holes sooner than...
...France and Poland. The "passionate consciousness of race and nation" so natural to educated young men and women has been outraged too many times. The invasion of the Ruhr was a tremendous victory for all those Germans whom Americans in general regard as "reactionaries," the shooting down of German workmen at Essen at Easter time in 1923 was another, and every pinprick, big or small, has reduced still more the strength of the parties of the Left in Germany. Without the help of France, there would probably still be Socialists in the German cabinet and General von Hindenburg would most...
...expected that workmen will start installing the Georgian system, similar to that in the Dunster Street restaurant, on Monday morning so that the place can be opened for business the first week in February...
...important fact that nearly all great Englishmen were born in workmen's houses that causes the present day laborer to desire a good education. In classes at Oxford and Cambridge working men and women have proven their ability to write a better hand than their tutors even if they don't spell as well. This brings up the interesting question of whether it is better to write legibly and spell in correctly or to write illegibly with perfect orthography. Please notice that all American business letters have type-written as well as penned signatures...