Word: transition
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...subway service will provide a better route between Kendall square and South Boston by transfer to Summer street cars. It will also provide a better route for Cambridge subway passengers to the North Station by transfer to the elevated trains. It also provides a rapid transit service between Harvard square and points on elevated lines from Sullivan square to Forest Hills...
...CRIMSON; that words in any way colored are almost sure to find quick publication in newspapers elsewhere. The nasty side of a question is presented to avid readers in Chicago, Barnsville, and Kokomo,--with never a word on the true merits of the case. The news is warped in transit until the middle-westerner believes Harvard a hot-bed of immorality and a nursery of vice. The first thing, then, is to couch your arguments in temperate terms; the next, to make them thoughtful, not hasty. The man who loses his temper over affairs in Cambridge...
...political way. Evidently, however, he does not realize how great the progress toward this has been. We Would like to call his attention to a few casual examples of labor in outside fields by members of the Faculty-to the work of professor Swain on Engineering and Transit Commissions; to the work, within the last week, of professor Bullock in connection with the State Committee on Preservation and Taxation of Forest Lands; to the work of The of Professor Holcombe as a member of the first Minimum Wage Board in the country; to the work of Professor Taussig, for years...
...Rhodes, electrical engineer of the Interborough Rapid Transit Company of New York City, delivered the second of his lectures on "The Economics of Power Plant Operation" yesterday afternoon...
...surges started by feeder burn-outs. He went on to point out the value of induction generators which operate in parallel with turbo-units in limiting the excessive rush of short-circuit burn-outs. The direct current end of the system was then discussed. On the Interborough Rapid Transit Company about 88 per cent, of the alternating current power which is generated is delivered to the third rail. The losses which are sustained take place as follows: transmission, 2 per cent.; transformers, 3 per cent.; converters, 5 per cent.; and auxiliaries, 2 per cent...