Word: surveying
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Melville of Dorchester. Massachusetts died suddenly in Austin, Texas, on Friday night. He graduated from Harvard in '75 and for a number of years was connected with the United States Geological Survey as chemist in San Fransisco and Washington. He resigned this position last September and accepted a similar situation for the State of Texas...
Eben Norton Horsford was born at Moscow, New York, July 27, 1818. He attended the district and other schools of that place until he was thirteen, when he entered the Livingston County High School. In 1834 he was employed for a short time in railroad surveys, and then entered the Renssaller Institute where he was graduated a civil engineer in 1837. For the next two years he was engaged under Professor Hall in the geological survey of New York. From 1839 to 1843 he was the professor of mathematics and natural science at the Albany Female Academy, and during this...
Beginning with the second half-year there will be a course at the Lawrence Scientific School, in Road Engineering. It will be conducted by Mr. William E. McClintock, a member of Massachusetts Highway Commission, and a former assistant in the Coast Survey. The course is something quite new in this country, but is one that is rapidly coming to be necessary. It will be a practical course under a practical man, for Mr. McClintock is himself a builder of roads, and was chosen because he was acquainted not only with the theory, but with the practice of road building...
...foot ball managers are using every means to enlist the services of all graduates whose presence in the field will insure the greatest expert coaching ability within reach. A careful survey of the methods employed in bringing out material last year demonstrates the fact that the foot ball men left undone nothing which was within their power to control, and moreover clearly shows that our coachers gave us their best advice, which the college has long since realized to have been painstaking and thorough...
...Wolff, instructor in Petrography, has been made assistant professor for next year. He is at present in New Jersey on work connected with the United States Geological Coast Survey, where he will be joined in two weeks by a number of Harvare geology students as assistants...