Items of Interest November 5, 1904 Issue

Items of Interest

The New York subway was opened to the public last week. The system, when fully completed, will consist of twenty-six miles of underground tracks, elevated structures, and viaducts, over which will run express trains at nearly a mile a minute, reaching to the city's northern and southern limits, and, diving under the East River, making the extreme eastern skirts of Brooklyn as accessible to the business districts as the heights of Harlem. It is estimated that over this vast system, and those of the Metropolitan Street Railway Company and the Manhattan Elevated Company, will pass annually more than 900,000,000 passengers. The total expenditure on New York subways will, it is estimated, amount to about $205,000,000.

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology has received six prizes in the educational exhibit at the St. Louis Exposition, as follows: A grand prize for the general exhibit, a gold medal for mining engineering exhibit, a silver medal for special exhibit of analytical chemistry, a silver medal for special exhibit of drawing, a silver medal for special exhibit of photography, students' work, etc., bronze medal for special exhibit of transparencies. These six prizes were awarded in the group of higher education, which included all the colleges, professional schools, libraries, and museums.

It is stated that the efforts of the joint committee, charged with seeking a scheme for an educational alliance between Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, are likely to be successful. The plan to be presented to the governing bodies of the two institutions has already been prepared in the rough. No "merger" is contemplated, but a true alliance. Harvard University is to secure representation upon the corporation of the Institute, and in return the Institute is given place in the corporation of Harvard University.

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