Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Poly, 1916-1917, Vol. 5
Nine years ago the Polytechnic was only an idea. There were no buildings, no campus and no money to secure these things. There was in the minds of a few people a knowledge of a pressing need and a vision of an institution that would supply this ne.ed A region larger than the combined area of New England, New. York and Pennsylvania was with out a single institution of higher learning; a great territory larger than the entire German Empire and far richer in undeveloped resources offer ed its tens of thousands of splendid boys and girls no Opportunity of an adequate training for life. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
