Posts Tagged ‘1903’

Profile James Mapes Dodge circa 1903

[reprinted from Cassier’s magazine v. 24 May-Oct. 1903. Article by By S. Howard-Smith] Mechanical instinct and crea-tive facility were manifested at an early period in the life of Mr. James Mapes Dodge. The leisure of his school-boy days was largely employed in applying mechanical movements and principles to “things of use and things of play,”…

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Profile – Alexander Crombie Humphreys circa 1903

[as reprinted from Cassier’s magazine 1903] That the engineer should be a business man, or at least conversant with business conditions and methods, has been the leading principle in Dr. Alexander Crombie Humphreys’ just opening career as an engineering educator, and Stevens Institute of Technology, atHoboken, N. J., of which he became president last year,…

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