Word: torpedoes
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Judson, '80, after leaving college, entered the U. S. Army. At present he is in the engineering courps, and is stationed at one of the forts in New York harbor for the purpose of making an especial study of the modern torpedo system. He holds the rank of first lieutenant...
...letter, just received by a gentleman at Hartford from a friend in China, tells what the students, lately recalled from this country, are doing. Fifty-one have been distributed as follows: Twenty to the telegraph office, eight to the medical school, ten to the torpedo school, seven to the mining school, four to the customs department, and two to the government docks. The rest, about forty in number, are in the naval school in Tientsin. A letter from one of the students indicates that the official wrath has been somewhat appeased by the discovery that the boys have not foresworn...