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...article by D. V. Casey in the March number of "System," in which he tells of the work of Dean Wallace C. Sabine, head of the Graduate Schools of Applied Science at Harvard, and the foremost American authority on architectural acoustics. Thousands of employers are confronted with the problem of eliminating noise in their offices, for they have found that it consumes strength and attention, and diminishes the efficiency of employees. The question has been solved by Dean Sabine, who, in 1895, began a series of experiments to determine the sound-absorbing qualities of various types of walls, floors, furniture...
...keep the advantages of the open office, and yet to cut down its drawback of noise is the problem which business men and scientists have been trying to solve for several years. Consequently the results of Dean Sabine's repeated experiments have been noted by many large industries and banks over the country. In one typical instance, the general offices of a Chicago packer employing four hundred were turned from bedlam into workrooms of more than usual quiet...
...product of felt, designed to secure strength without losing absorbing power. The general result over the country has been the elimination in many cases of private offices, and the creation of large, single, office rooms, the ceilings and walls of which are treated with the new material. The great problem of excessive office noise as an important factor against office efficiency and costs has been solved. Dean Sabine has shown that noise can be controlled and reduced by scientific treatment...
...year, aside from the matter of attendance figures, has seen a good deal of agitation over what might be called the Chapel problem. In the first place, I wish to call attention to the fact that the attendance, especially at Sunday chapel, varies directly with the degree of estimation which the students have for the preacher of the day. Most students will not, or, at least, do not, come to chapel unless attracted by something more than a desire for worship. Much less attention is paid to the weather than...
...code of international law, and remedies it. Nations that have the best political organization, have the most law; where there is the most law, there is the most justice, and where there is the most justice, there is the most peace. The world is facing somewhat of the same problem as did the 13 original American states, and improved communications and transportation have, by annihilating time and space, made our present opportunity greater than that of 1776. Men must face the alternative of law or war. It is a change that is far off-few will...