Word: lumbering
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...their whole period of work. Half of them began wood-chopping on December 24 and the rest took up the job on the day after Christmas. This section paid for its own food and transportation, and were paid at the rate of $2.50 for each cord of wood. The lumber was all oak and will be burned into charcoal. Between 40 and 50 cords were secured in all, the students taking in an average of about six a day. The eleven men who stayed at Sandwich were: P. C. Francis '20, N. L. Harris '19, R. W. Hersey...
...complete list of courses in specialized fields which open this week is as follows: accounting, "Accounting Practice" and "Industrial Accounting"; financial management, "Investments" and "Financial Management of Railroad Companies"; transportation, "Railroad Accounting and Statistics" and "Water Transportation"; insurance, "Fire Insurance Engineering"; "Life Insurance Agency Methods" and "Actuarial Practice"; lumbering, "General Lumbering" and "Lumber Problems"; law, "Law Relating to Railroad Rate Making"; industrial management, "Factory Practice"; Chamber of Commerce Work and Methods"; local public utilities, "Public Utilities Operation"; and foreign trade, "Latin American Trade Problems...
...poets, the men of science and the men of thought. Who will suggest a fair set-off in lines of railroad laid down or in buildings put up for the "unsubstantial" creations of a Beethoven or a Mozart, a Verdi, a Gounod or a Wagner? How many feet of lumber cut, sawed and split-how many tons of coal raised from the mine and delivered-equal in value the influence on men of poems like the "Psalnt of Life," of songs like the "Marsellaise" and the "Star Spangled Banner"? Do I seem to exaggerate the significance of the thinker...
...highest averages, outside of the two classes just mentioned, go to the attendant, "tutor and companion," yacht hand, lumber worker and railroading divisions...
...Gries who will supervise the whole course is probably one of the best equipped men in the country to deal with this subject. The whole work under him will not only deal with the methods of turning forest trees into lumber profitably but will also take up the necessary details of finance and manufacturing. The lack of efficiency and economy in the lumber industry of today is lamentably noticeable. Much timber is made into lumber at a distinct loss. The whole manufacturing and marketing end of the lumber industry is in need of just such scientific study as this...