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Colonel Wilgus whose education ended with high school reached a figure of prominence in the engineering profession through continued success in his railroad projects. He started his life's work as a road man on the Minnesota and Northwestern railroad and was rapidly advanced to the position of draughtsmen, superintendent, and in five years, division engineer. Following this he had charge of building a new railroad in the Great Lakes district. In 1903 Mr. Wilgus was in general charge of the electrification of the railroads in the zone surrounding New York and of the construction of the Grand Central Terminal...
...arrangement with the Institute of Technology, whereby for several years the same problems in design have been worked out in both schools, and a combined jury from the two staffs and from practicing members of the profession, judges the drawings and determines the grades. The evening class for draughtsmen in the Boston Architectural Club also joins in these combined problems. Professor Ferran, recently appointed to the Institute staff, is also a graduate of the Ecole des Beaux-Arts and a winner of the Prix de Rome. He is also a close personal friend of Professor Haffner. The arrangement of joint...
...private collectors have been striving, is highly spoken of by Mr. Campbell Dodgson of the British Museum, and has been reproduced in Lippmann's work on Durer drawings. Significant also are the 16th Century drawings by Francois Clouet, and a set of four by Ingres and other leading draughtsmen of the 19th Century...
...agents, 12 each as gardeners and guides, and 11 as musicians. The list of various kinds of positions was not limited to these lines of work, however, but included 39 separate sorts of jobs: accountants, agents, attendants, boys' club workers, care-takers, chauffeurs, choremen, clerks, coaches, companions, computers, correctors, draughtsmen, errand boys, farmers, gardeners, guides, hat checkers, hotel clerks, librarians, monitors, musicians, note takers, proctors, proof readers, readers, research workers, salesmen, settlement workers, stenographers, switchboard operators, ticket takers, translators, tutors, tutor companions, stenographers, ushers, waiters, and several others...
Candidates must have had a high school education or its equivalent; they must have reached the age of 21 years before the beginning of the academic year 1917-18; they must have had at least three years' experience as draughtsmen in an architect's office, and must bring the recommendation of their last employer. Applicants admitted to candidacy will be notified in time to take part in the competition. The program for the competitive design will be given out at 10 o'clock on Saturday morning, April 14, at a place in each city to be designated for each candidate...