Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Seventy Years

Tech Banquet - First dinner (226) banquet revived (325)

Tech Council - Organized (269)

Technical Schools before 1865 -Rensselaer (13, 19), U. S. Military Academy (18), Sheffield, Thayer, Lawrence, Washington University (19), Michigan, Massachusetts Institute (20), Cornell, Lehigh, Stevens, Purdue, Brooklyn (21), European schools (22)

Technical Schools on the Worcester Plan - Rose (88, 116, 172), Georgia (136, 146), Armour (194), Carnegie (194)

Techniquest - Introduced (360)

Thayer Bequest, Florence S. (358)

Thompson Club - (156)

Thompson Fund, Charles 0

Bequest of George I. Alden (343)

Trustees - Original Board (23) , first meeting (23), members in 1901 (200), increase in number (214), alumni representation (294), term members (300), President as chairman (301), executive committee (302)

Tuition - Students out of the County (48), increase to $150 (107), increase to $200 (288), to $280 and $330 (345)

Washburn Engineering Society -Organized (157). Commencement lectures (194), branch of the A. S. M. E. (225)

Washburn Fund, Charles F. -Gift of Charles G. Washburn (257)

Washburn Legacy, Ichabod - (68, 85)

Washburn's Original Plan - (6)

Washburn Shop - Ichabod Washburn agreement (11), letter of gift (13), construction (41), opening (82), first products (85), awards (87), finances (89), construction of wings (90), plunger elevators (90), investigations of shop management (135), Higgins patents (138), north wing added (139), disposal of elevator business (178, 187), Higgins' resignation (187), Chandler succeeded Higgins (188), Bird succeeded Chandler (204), new products (209), exhibit at St. Louis (209), war production (276), profits (285), new equipment (360)

Wetherell Bequest, Mrs. John W. -(177)

Whitney Bequest, Frank 0. -(358)

Wilson, Woodrow -Commencement speaker (165), invited to Fiftieth Anniversary (260)

Wireless Association - (225),

Wood, General Leonard -Speaker at Fiftieth Anniversary (262), at New York dinner (268)

Woodman, John S. -Address at Boynton Hall dedication (51)

Worcester in 1865 - (29)

Worcester Mechanics' Association -(139)

World War - Military training proposed (267, 275), war declared (275), first military drill (276), leaves of absence (277), Hollis' activities (279), Student Army Training Corps organized (282), Institute under War Department (283), S.A.T.C. demobilized (284), settlement of contracts (285), war casualties (288), appraisal of

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