| Show Two meetings of the 07 Hierarchy Hierarchy Hier Iier archy held recently were well attended attended attended at at- tended and proved very interest interest- ing At the first meeting Alston explained in detail the construction construction construction tion of a dam by the hydraulic fill process paying particular attention attention attention atten atten- tion to the method of distributing the building material through pipes The article is one of the papers of the American Institute of Civil Engineers and is a very recent idea which has proved a success especially in building up upI I high dams of dirt when scraping and grading with teams would be impossible or at least impracticable ble owing to the height Scott reviewed the Engineering Record At the next session Birch told of of several interesting articles in inthe inthe inthe the Engineering Record including including including ing the building of reinforced concrete concrete concrete con con- crete dams with clay filling and Felt wound up the convention by giving an illustrated lecture of i information contained in the Engineering Engineering Engineering En En- News explaining the new electric system of house heating heating heating heat heat- ing which is being used so ext extensively extensively exten exten- en- en in the East Latest reports show the hydraulic lic class to have the highest standing in school They average average aver aver- age ge about six feet One of the professors told a self-evident self truth lately wit to-wit A school of hard knocks is as asgood asgood good goodas as the University of Utah but it may not give you a degree Burgess Young a former student student student stu stu- dent was seen in the library last week He Ie is engaged i in I original research work along metallurgical lines pr preliminary to designing new machinery for his company and visited the University to consult consult con con- sult stilt our excellent technical li li- li The United States smelter recently recently recently re re- sent the University a number number num num- ber her of samples of ore These sam sam- ples pIes have been assayed and a report report report re re- port is sent along with them The students in assaying are required to check their results with those sent in by the smelter This is the second contribution by these people lately The other one was blue prints of the blast furnaces n nat at use in their works The transit r peepers are busy surveying the c campus 1 If you figure on doing any engineering engineering engineering en en- in the Polar regions just take a a. a course in Mechanics Lab Cold Worse than that much worse Its It's just a trifle colder than 42 degrees below and going down fast But if the Legislature r ris is generous we may have the course abolished and the bright warm and sunny days are com coin ing In the mill the class is conducting conducting conducting conduct conduct- ing tests on a crystallized d cirus- cirus site ore taken from the Terrible mine in Colorado This is to in include include in- in clude elude sampling ng and assaying a as aswell 1 well as a run through the W Worlds orld's Fair mill t jj a aY o j Y |
