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request and were highly gratified at the progress
made by the class.
It may be explained that…
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the institution had not been self-supporting. Its
founder paid each year more than one-…
Carnegie Building, 1906-
Russell Sage Laboratory, Front View, 1909-
Students' Club House, 1908-1932
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sub-ternis were occupied in the travelling tours to
which reference has been made.
During the…
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was appointed June 25, 1828. His term was a short
one, however, as he was compelled, on…
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to the removal to Greenbush were not satisfactory,
as may be seen from the following letter…
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Grand Division streets, and the removal took place
in April, 1834.
During the occupation…
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being particularly called to obey, it shall be the duty
of said professor to lay hands on such…
CHAPTER V I
ESTABLISHMENT OF THE DEPARTMENT OF CIVIL
ENGINEERING
THE preceding pages show that the original in-
tention of…
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try, in the early-founded schools and colleges to
which reference already has been made.…
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Beside these, which depended largely upon govern-
ment aid, a private institution, the…
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neer had been coined during the last quarter of the
eighteenth century, it is believed by…
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State had 1,919,000, and New York City 203,000.
Troy was a village of 1,800 people at the…
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of 350 tons, built at Corlears Hook, New York.
However, the engines were used only…
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over to erect and run it. It was put together in
1763 at the Schuyler copper-mine on the…
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In 1820 one of the first cast-iron water-mains in the
country was laid for the…
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at Frankford.” In the same year Whipple built his
first iron bridge.
The few historical…
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of water in rivers and aqueducts, and other sub-
jects now to be found in the curriculum…
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tioned, though this was an octavo circular contain-
ing only three printed pages.
I n…
Russell Sage Laboratory, Rear View; Boiler House, 1908-
Addition to Russell Sage Laboratory, 1924-
Walker Chemical Laboratory, 1906-
Addition to Walker Laboratory, 1921-
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22, 1835, their number was increased, in accord-
ance with a provision of the above-…
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they can read algebraic equations, and have a general
knowledge of Perspective generally…
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Assistants-Edward
Suffern and D. S. Smalley.
Instruction, wholly practical, illustrated…