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...departments of study in the School are as follows: Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Electric Communication Engineering, Civil Engineering, Sanitary and Municipal Engineering, Sanitary Chemistry, Mining, Metallurgy, and Industrial Chemistry. In each of these departments four-year undergraduate programs are offered which lead to the degree of Bachelor of Science, and also graduate study and research leading to the higher degree of Master of Science (or an equivalent degree), or the degree of Doctor of Science...
...former program in Sanitary Engineering has been replaced by two new programs, one called Sanitary and Municipal Engineering, which is very like the work in Civil Engineering with the addition of municipal engineering, administration, water supply and sewage disposal, and other sanitary subjects with which municipal engineers have to deal; the other program, Sanitary Chemistry, provides training for those who are interested in the chemical, physical, and biological problems of public sanitation...
...relief measure for the present situation, the bill is undoubtedly a valuable one. But its danger lies in the fact that it paves the way for complete nationalization--a danger which outweighs the bill's momentary merits. Were there in this country an effective Civil Service, or were it possible to eliminate party polities from the actual machinery of the government, nationalization would be the logical remedy for most of the problems affecting those industries essential to public welfare. But unfortunately there exiate in the United States no permanent system of disinterested administration. Governmental control is only...
...time, a full account of the life of one of the most interesting of American soldiers and writers. In youth a romantic poet, Mr. Higginson became in early life a Unitarian clergyman of power and effectiveness. Later, in command of the first colored regiment raised for service in the Civil War, he had some military experience of exceptional interest. In later life, as a many-sided man of letters, his relations with writers in both England and America were extraordinarily close and varied. Few Americans of the nineteenth century touched American life at more points than Colonel Higginson. With portrait...
Next in order of merit we would select "The Blue and the Grey," a story of the Civil War. That familiar piece of fiction which has for its theme the young southern officer, carrying despatches amid impossible difficulties, the Battle of Gettysburg and the tiresome elaboration about the relative positions of the opposing forces, is here, held up to a heavy barrage of ridicule. This sarcasm in turn is directed against the detective story of today in "Who do You Thing Did It? or The Mixed-Up Murder Mystery"--only the final outcome is not in accordance with the usual...