Word: importance
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...attempt to secure the co-operation of large business houses will also be made in the extension of the new courses. Export and import houses will be asked to submit specific trade problems for discussion in classes. If possible, men specializing in foreign trade will be given an opportunity to spend their summer vacations with such firms, in order to gain practical experience...
...January 1, 1918, Dean Gay was appointed Special Expert on the United States Shipping Board and on February 11, 1918, was made Director of the Division of Planning and Statistics and was engaged to supervise the reduction of imports that tonnage might be conserved for war purposes. At this same time he was appointed a member of the War Trade Board to represent the Shipping Board and to co-ordinate the enforcement of import restrictions. Subsequently he was made Director of the Division of Planning and Statistics of the War Industries Board as well as of that department...
...intimation which the Department of English received of any dissatisfaction. The better way would have been to call the attention of the Department to the matter before resorting to a petition. As in all such instances, the Faculty has a case which, not apparent at first, is of considerable import. The Department of English states that the purely military side of the work is only a fraction of the total requirement for the three and a half weeks period under discussion, and that it will not retard the primary study of the principles of English composition. We would suggest...
...returning to Cambridge from the service would not receive additional benefit from such training, that the systems of training recently enforced do not appear the best which can be devised, and that the development of a practical and permanent system of military instruction for coming classes is of primary import, the university authorities believe that it will be more feasible to begin its new military program in the fall...
...Shipping Board, Dean Gay devoted the greater part of his time to the study of tonnage problems, and it is as a representative of this Board that he was made a member of the War Trade Board. He will give his attention particularly to the consideration of import questions concerning the allocation and conservation of ships. Dean Gay's previous experience in this field qualifies him as one of the country's authorities on this subject...