Word: telegraph
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Arthur Edwin Kennelly, "Born in Bombay, brought up in England, submarine cable telegraph operator at 16, professor of electrical engineering since 1902, made through today's act a full member of this society of scholars...
...Lifter, another daughter, C, N. Eaton '08 James Christopher Lovewater, missionary to Japan, E. H. Baker '06 Admiral Ihavben A. Bumskivitch, of the Russian battleship Sinkavitsky, F. H. Whitney '06 Higginson Wigglesworth, penniless college graduate seeking a position, G. L. Yocum '07 Franklin Edison Marconi Bluebell, a Yankee wireless telegraph and telephone solicitor, F. H. Van Orman '08 Sigaret, hotel maid, afterwards maid-in-waiting to May Lifter, Morgan Jopling '06 Nami Kami, a geisha girl, H. L. Murphy '08 Adolph Haschaus, a hotel manager, F. W. Olmsted '08 Tu Lung, a Chinese servant, H. L. Olmsted '08 Messenger...
...Gerrish, an assistant in the Observatory, has recently devised a system and code for use in the transmission of astronomical or other numerical data by telegraph. Since 1883 the University Observatory has been the official centre in the United States for the distribution of astronomical information; and the new system is the result of the experience gained during that period. A practical trial of it, conducted between Cambridge and Mt. Hamilton, California, developed no errors which could not be easily rectified...
...Harvard College during the year 1904-05 will he held in Sanders Theatre at 8 o'clock this evening. Dean Hurlbut will be the presiding officer and will make a brief statement of the purposes of the meeting. Mr. Frederick P. Fish '75, President of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company, will deliver the principal address on the subject "Scholarship and industrial Conditions Today." According to the usual custom the singing will be led by the Appleton Chapel choir...
...AWARD OF ACADEMIC DISTINCTIONS IN HARVARD COLLEGE. Scholarship and the Industrial Conditions of Today. Frederick Perry Fish, '75, President of the American Telephone and Telegraph Co. Sanders Theatre...