Word: problems
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...address to the Territorial Clubs last night, Dr. A. P. Fitch '00 declared that the great problem before the University today is the amalgamation of its three separate social classes into one homogeneous democratic body...
...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...
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