Historic Materials

In August 1918, Prof. Albert J. Houle wrote a report to the Committee on Education and Special Training in Washington detailing the truing that Michigan College of Mines (as it was called then) was providing to men in “mine running” (tunneling) and mine rescue.  In it he details their activities and included over a dozen ...

  Although the American contingent heading to Europe was relatively small compared to European Countries, there was still a sentiment that those that did not enlist were somehow shirking their responsibilities.  Those left at home sometimes responded that they, too, were doing their part.  Such is the case as when Berton Braley published a poem in the Engineering ...