The Journal of the Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Volume 14

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Página 324 - I cannot say that I am in the slightest degree impressed by your bigness, or your material resources, as such. Size is not grandeur, and territory does not make a nation. The great issue, about which hangs a true sublimity and the terror of overhanging fate, is what are you going to do with all these things?
Página 325 - ... as population thickens in your great cities, and the pressure of want is felt, the gaunt specter of pauperism will stalk among you, and communism and socialism will claim to be heard.
Página 324 - But anticipation has no less charm than retrospect, and to an Englishman landing upon your shores for the first time, travelling for hundreds of miles through strings of great and well-ordered cities, seeing your enormous actual, and almost infinite potential, wealth in all commodities, and in the energy and ability which turn wealth to account, there is something sublime in the vista of the future. Do not suppose that I am pandering to what is commonly understood by national pride.
Página 400 - Trustees or stockholders, as the by-laws may direct, and shall hold their respective offices until others are chosen and qualified in their stead; the 'President shall be chosen from among the Directors; the Secretary shall be sworn to the faithful discharge of his duties ; and shall record all the...
Página 185 - To promote harmony, correct practices, and the principles of sound underwriting. To devise and give effect to measures for the protection of the common interests, and the promotion of such laws and regulations as will secure stability and solidity to capital employed in the business of fire insurance, and protect it against oppressive, unjust and discriminative legislation.
Página 156 - Bonn and Treadwell of Zurich, with whom he was in active correspondence to the last. Returning to the United States in 1879, he spent a year in graduate study at the Johns Hopkins University, and then three years at Harvard, where he served as instructor in quantitative analysis. In 1882 he received from Harvard the degree of doctor of science, and in September of the same year came to the Institute as instructor in chemistry. In the following January he became assistant professor of chemistry; three...
Página 399 - If required by the Board of Directors, the Treasurer shall give a bond for the faithful discharge of his duties in such sum and with such surety or sureties as the Board of Directors shall determine.
Página 158 - Kinnicutt was widely connected with scientific associations: He was a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, of which he was vice-president in 1904; a member of the...
Página 400 - She shall attend all meetings of the Association and of the Executive Committee and shall keep the records thereof. She shall keep an accurate list of general and branch members, collect all annual dues, and pay over all moneys received, to the bursar. She shall perform such other duties proper to her position as the Executive Committee, the president, or the general secretary may from time...
Página 157 - ... 11. With GD MOORE — The Action of an Alcoholic Solution of Silver Nitrate on the Ethyl Ether of Phenyl-dibrom-propionic Acid. (American Chemical Journal, 1891, p. 204.) 12. With GR SANFORD — The lodometric Determination of Small Quantities of Carbon Monoxide. (Journal American Chemical Society, 1900, p. 14.) "Since 1900 he has carried on many investigations, particularly in sanitary work and in the capacity of consulting expert. Many results of such work have been published as reports. He...

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