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The Plumbing Prize
COMMENT
The mistake Harvard University made is offering a prize of $200 for the best paper on plumbing was in making the amount too small. Any young man who knew enough about plumbing to write a paper on the subject could go out on a repair job and make more than that in half an hour.--Rochester Democrat and Chronicle. --Boston Globe.
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