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A chapter in American education : Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 1824-1924

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A CHAPTER IN America, he became increasingly interested in the problems of community life under modern conditions, Though…
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AMERICAN EDUCATION only m heads of bureaus and commissions, where their functions were largely profes- sional, but also as…
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A CHAPTER IN Goners-and they were not a few-it is eVi- dent that in local and national politics they have played an…
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AMERICAN EDUCATION than ordinary service. On the Atlantic, along the Mississippi, and by the Pacific, they were to be found…
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A CHAPTER IN came brigadier-generals-I do not intend to speak. Regarding the World War, of which the memorial tablet in the…
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AMERICAN EDUCATION purposes, many of the alumni have entered the technical branches of the service. Those who became chief…
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CHAPTER VI1 CANALS AND RAILROADS ONE of the most striking features of the nineteenth century-one which influenced…
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AMERICAN EDUCATION they constructed long seemed stupendous. A little later, when Congress voted an appro- priation for the…
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A CHAPTER IN enterprise with which they have been con- nected is the Panama Canal, with which they have been identified from…
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AMERICAN EDUCATION Company, also, the alumni were closely as- sociated. Indeed, they were active at the Isthmus until the…
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A CHAPTER I N Striking as were the services of the grad- uates at Panama, they have been over- shadowed by their records on…
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AMERICAN EDUCATION - o v e r four hundred in number-who served their generation in this manner, the lives of two of them…
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A CHAPTER I N of the Spuyten Duyvil Rolling Mill Com- pany; and henceforth he extended his in- terests to the details of…
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AMERICAN EDUCATION closely to the colorful ideal which moves the average freshman who to-day elects a course in civil…
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A CHAPTER IN As administrators, the alumni have natu- rally made for themselves names which are more generally known than…
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AMERICAN EDUCATION the rails, built many of the bridges, and manufactured many of the engines required for their equipment.…
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A CHAPTER IN became, in 1880, president of the Pennsyl- vania and its allied companies. As he helped to lay the foundations…
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AMERICAN EDUCATION in New York City. The strategic position of the road to-day is largely a monument to his foresight and…
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AMERICAN EDUCATION Pacific, he was largely responsible for the success of that momentous undertaking. Like Evans, also, he…
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CHAFTER VI11 STRUCTURES AND MECHANISMS IN the long line of dormitories stretching across the east end of the campus is a…
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A CHAPTER I N kind. Instead, therefore, of attempting to deal with the mechanisms which they have invented, and which are…
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AMERICAN EDUCATION addition to the development of such devices as transits, compasses, meters, and levels, the founders of…
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A CHAPTER IN stalled in private plants and public labora- tories, have contributed materially to the advancement of…
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AMERICAN EDUCATION coincident with the rise of railroads, Rens- selaer became a source of inspiration for the young men who…
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A CHAPTER IN in the manufacture of bridges the alumni were leaders; for one of Murphy's class- mates, Percival Roberts…
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