Posted in RPI Trivia, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute History, tagged 1948 Olympics, Ned Harkness, RPI athletics, RPI lacrosse, Susan Blanchard on April 23, 2008 | 9 Comments »
Every month or so, I select an image to feature on our home page and today I chose a picture of the 1948 lacrosse team.
The fun fact about this team is that they represented the United States in a demonstration game against England in the 1948 Summer Olympics. So the match was essentially RPI vs. [...]
Posted in Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute History, unidentified photographs, tagged blackboard, classroom, engineering, faculty, identified image, mystery image, RPI on April 11, 2008 | 6 Comments »
Ladies and gentlemen, it’s time for another round of Mystery Image. There is still a thick folder of unidentified photographs on my desk so let’s get to it! My best guess about this prof is that he is/was in the School of Engineering. The nicely written notes on the blackboard are Greek to [...]
Posted in Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute History, tagged centennial, Rensselaer, RPI campus, RPI history, Russell Sage Laboratory, Sage Lab on April 9, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
There are several centennials to mark this year at RPI so I’ve been doing a lot of research in the period 1907 to 1909. I just installed a new exhibit in the Folsom Library titled Russell Sage Laboratory 100 Years: A Glance Back at the Beginning. One hundred years ago this month, ground [...]
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