Word: elgar
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Dates: during 1884-1884
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...great loss to suggest a plan for resuscitating the industry of American ship-building. Such a professorship would be more appropriate however at one of our technical schools like the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Great Britain at least has a professorship of this sort and Mr. Francis Elgar, naval architect of the city of London, has recently been unanimously elected to the chair of naval architecture in the University of Glasgow, which was recently endowed by Mr. John Elder. Mr. Elgar is a Fellow of the late Royal School of Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering, and a member...