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Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering

Within the Engineering program, students may concentrate in Computing (E:C), Bioengineering (E:BE), Materials Science (E:MS), Systems Design (E:SYS), or they may design their own concentrations with the administration's approval.


Franklin W. Johnson

In 1905 he moved to Chicago to become the principal of Morgan Park High School, and in 1907 became principal of the progressive and controversial University of Chicago High School, part of the school system created by John Dewey, and now known as the University of Chicago Laboratory Schools.

Franklin W. Olin

They had three sons, Franklin W. Jr. (predeceased), John, and Spencer, all three of whom also graduated from Cornell.

After World War II, Frank Olin retired from management of the firm, leaving it to his sons John and Spencer.

Seal of Colby College

In 1936, President Franklin W. Johnson commissioned William Addison Dwiggins to design a seal to replace the one then existing, specifying only that it (1) used the same motto as the first and (2) retain the sun as the central theme.

The Crimson Flame

The Crimson Flame is the 77th title of the Hardy Boys series, written by Franklin W. Dixon.

Thomas Hughes

In 1880, he acquired the ownership of Franklin W. Smith's Plateau City and founded a settlement in America — Rugby, Tennessee — which was designed as an experiment in utopian living for the younger sons of the English gentry, although this later proved largely unsuccessful.


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