Worcester Polytechnic Institute - Peddler Yearbook (Worcester, MA)

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24 The Log. have been unable to solve it. Mathematicians, to whom it has been shown, claim to have solved it, but await the result of an investigation by the Trustees before publishing solutions: “ If it takes Eighty-Seven and Eighty-Eight, with the aid of two skilled machinists, two years to build a turret-lathe, how much does the Norton Emery Wheel Company make in one year? The time it will require to build and equip the Atlanta Technical School may be computed from the same data.” We shall, no doubt, all find lucrative employment immediately upon our graduation, and in the year One thousand eight hundred and n ety have our names entered in the Catalogue as “ with A. B. C. Co.”