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...notable features stand forth prominently in the recent announcement of the research fellowship established at Harvard in the name of Jacob Wertheim. "One of them is the nature of the fellowship and the other the reason stated by Mr. Maurice Wertheim for entrusting it to Harvard. Contrary to the ideas of those who merely skim headlines, the fellowship is not an outright gift to Harvard, but a trust to be administered by the University in favor of anyone indeed deserving of its benefits, whether or not a member of Harvard. As a reason for bestowing upon the University this unusual...
...some means of rapprochement has become clearly evident. Especially is it evident when at last the absolutely necessary combination of the two upon a single end has been recognized beyond a doubt. Although whether profit sharing will bring this to pass remains an open question, the promoting of research for the betterment of industrial relationships is valuable and estimable in the highest degree...
...comfort and respectability are his first requirements, but if his library contains Conrad, Henry James. Balzac, and De Morgan, the salesman must use the utmost discrimination, as his desire for a distinctive home with beautiful and harmonious surroundings will be limited only by his income. We wonder if the research managers of large real-estate corporations furnish their young salesmen with charts something like this...
...Macey and Company, urged the application of the economic study of statistics to legislative problems of the country. A study he said of the economic effects of traiff and taxation on commerce might produce results that would cause even Congress to give heed to the findings of the Harvard Research Bureau in preparing its legislation...
Professor Bullock, the concluding speaker, emphasized the importance of the international study of economic statistics. He said that a research bureau similar to that at Harvard had already been established by London and Cambridge Universities, and that one would soon be started at the Institute of Satistics of the University of Paris. By the cooperation of these three bureaus, he said he hoped that long strides would be taken towards a better understanding of economics and business conditions throughout the world...