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ZEPPELIN SERVICE STARTED AT SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING

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Combining business with pleasure is being effectively done by Harry R. Mimno, Acting Dean of the Engeering School. Witness the Lilliputian Zoppelin which flies many times daily between Pierce Hall and Cruft Laboratories. At the end of the cableway which supports this busy aircraft are hangers, appropriately named Friedrichshafen and Lakehurst.

Dean Mimno's office is in Cruft; the Engineering School secretaries are in Pierce; dictation must be given and taken. Engineering brains were put to work to bridge the gap, and the Zeppelin was created to bear dictaphone rolls from dean to secretary and transcribed correspondence from secretary to dean.

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