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Excerpt from The McKay Endowment and Applied Science at Harvard
The writer takes a deep interest in these problems as he was a student at the Lawrence Scientific School, obtaining the degree of Civil Engineer in 1877. His knowledge, sympathy, and interest, however, are not wholly marshalled on the technical side of the subject, as his son obtained his Harvard ab. In 1915, and is enrolled in the Harvard Law School, though now taking his part in France. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.