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...statistical and other studies which, although designed chiefly to develop instruction in business administration, contain much of interest to the economist and are therefore appropriate to mention in this survey. Even more important for our present purpose is the fact that the Department of Economics had the same need as the Business School of provision for gathering materials for teaching, though this had never been recognized by the University, so that the establishment of the Bureau of Business Research gave a useful object lesson...
...Economics, realized how inadequately it was equipped not only for scientific investigation but even for securing the necessary materials for instruction, authorized the Chairman to present the subject to the President of the University, with the result that in 1915 the Harvard Graduates' Magazine published an article upon "The Need of Endowment for Economic Research," in which the needs of the Department were fully set forth. In substance, the situation was that the modern economist was expected to make bricks without straw. Apart from the usual library facilities, the instructor in economics at Harvard, as at other universities, was expected...
...generous grant from the Rockefeller Foundation of the sum of $150,000, payable in instalments not exceeding $30,000 per annum over a period of five years. The terms of the grant provide for just such research as the Department of Economics visualized when it brought its needs to the attention of the President of the University in 1914. For the first time in its history, the Department can turn to economic research without the feeling that it is expected to make bricks without the necessary materials. For the first time, too, this great need of the Department, and therefore...
...definite times for the events will be announced within a day or two. Men who wish to enter need only sign up at the field on Friday or Saturday...
Conditions. New Canadian airports have good runways. They do not need them, for the country is spangled with lakes and striped with rivers-splendid sites in summer for pontoon-equipped planes, for ski-equipped ones in winter...