September 30: ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY
ON THIS DAY IN 1843, the Brooklyn Daily Eagle reported, “The Madisonian says that Professor [Samuel] Morse is about to commence laying the wires of his electric telegraph on the Baltimore and Washington Railroad. The wires are to be protected by leading tubes, in which they are enclosed. They are about the size of a man’s finger in circumference, and the bore is about a quarter of an inch in diameter.”
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ON THIS DAY IN 1912, the Eagle reported, “The School of Journalism of Columbia University has opened with the full number of students — about 100 — the university can accommodate until the completion of the building now under construction at Broadway and 116th Street, Manhattan. A number of Brooklyn and Long Island men are among those who have regularly registered. There are a few students in Columbia College and Extension Teaching who have not yet fulfilled the entrance requirements for the School of Journalism but are allowed to take a few courses in it in the hope that they will make good their regular standing by the end of the year.”