Stuart Daggett was born March 2, 1881 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin and graduated from Roxbury Latin School (Boston, Massachusetts) in 1899. He received all three of his degrees, the A.B. in 1903, the A.M. in 1904, and the Ph.D in 1906, from Harvard University. The title of his thesis was “Railroad Reorganization”, published as vol. 4 of Harvard Economic Studies (Houghton Mifflin, 1908). During 1906 to 1909 he was Instructor at Harvard, and in 1909 he accepted appointment to the University of California as Assistant Professor of Railway Economics. He was appointed full professor in 1917 and from 1920-1927 he was dean of the College of Commerce, retiring in 1951 as Flood Foundation professor emeritus of transportation. Stuart Daggett died December 22 1954 in Oakland, California.
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Railroad Practice
1906-07
Course Enrollment
Economics 17 2hf. Dr. Daggett. — Railroad Practice.
Total 37: 4 Graduates, 14 Seniors, 12 Juniors, 5 Sophomores, 2 Others.
Source: Harvard University. Report of the President of Harvard College, 1906-1907, p. 71.
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ECONOMICS 17
Year-end Examination, 1906-07
Answer 1, 2, 3, and five other questions.
- Distinguish between
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- departmental railroad organization, and
- divisional railroad organization.
Show the lines of responsibility under each system.
- Suppose a shipment of boots and shoes, weighing 10,000 pounds, from Boston to Minneapolis. The route to be via the Vanderbilt lines to Chicago, thence via the Chicago & Northwestern to Minneapolis. Rate, $1.35 per 100 pounds. The shipment to be sent “collect,” and the Chicago & Northwestern to get one-third of the total rate.
Make out in full the waybill which will accompany these goods between Chicago and Minneapolis- supposing auditor’s office settlements,
- supposing junction settlements.
- Describe carefully the system of through-billing with auditor’s office settlements of a shipment as in (2). Show what reports are made, and how the balances are determined and settled.
- Name the principal freight traffic associations and state as precisely as possible the territory which each covers. What are the main differences between such associations and the previously existing pools?
- Draw a workable diagram of a terminal cluster. What is a pole yard; a hump yard; a gravity yard; and what are the advantages and disadvantages of each?
- Discuss the advantages of the steel freight car over the wooden one; of the large freight car over the small one. How do the sizes of freight cars in Europe and the United States compare, and why?
- Why is it more expensive to haul passengers than to haul freight?
- What is a “block signal” system? Describe clearly the working of
- the staff system;
- the automatic electric system.
Illustrate (b) with a diagram showing the necessary circuits.
- Compare the experience of France with state railroad operation with that of Germany. What, in each case were the causes which led to state operation, the extent of the lines operated, the results from state operation, and the reasons for those results?
Source: Harvard University Archives. Harvard University, Examination Papers, 1873-1915. Box 8, Bound vol. Examination Papers 1906-07 (HUC 7000.25), p. 40.
Image Source: Railroad Train by Edward Hopper (1908). Wikiart, Visual Art Encyclopedia.