Education: Plumbing Professorship

Cartoonists out of ideas and pseudo-humorists of all sorts have often seen fit to air their waggery at the expense of that well-paid journeyman, the skilled plumber. In answer to all slurs, members of the abused occupation have merely to ask: "Where would you be without plumbing?" Truly, without plumbing the world and his wife would be unhappy. Never was this fact so signally recognized as by announcement that came last week from the Carnegie Institute of Technology at Pittsburgh. The announcement gave the details of a new professorship which has just...

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