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...university in particular -- has added to its other activities a score of quasi-technical fields unthought of a century ago. The sciences, business, engineering, and agriculture, to cite a few examples, have now been accorded a place in academic life; the industries are drawing upon the university for laboratory-research men, for construction experts, and business managers. More and more emphasis is being placed upon work which can be reckoned as so much bread and butter in the future...
...Copeland is at present Director of the Business Research Bureau of the University and Professor of Marketing. He graduated from Bowdoin in 1906, received his A. M. from the University in 1907, and his Ph.D. in 1910. Since 1912 he has been on the teaching staff of the Business School except in 1917-18 when he was in Washington as Executive Secretary of the Commercial Economy Board and the Conservation Division of the War Industry Board...
...their used in any way to reveal the identity of the individual concerns, they cannot fairly expect the educational institutions to have the intimate knowledge of business affairs that is essential for thoroughly practical teaching. I can assure you that the cooperation of the wholesale grocery trade in our research work during the last five years has been of tremendous assistance to us in our teaching...
...also have been glad to find that a good many wholesale grocers could make use of the results of this research immediately in the practical, everyday management of their business. The figures on the cost of doing business have been used extensively for purposes of comparison. When a wholesale grocer has put his own figures beside the average for the trade, he frequently has found the exact point at which his expense was too heavy. In some cases it was sales force expense. When his attention was called to that point, further investigation usually proved to him that the reason...
...Research Information Service of the National Research Council has announced from its office in Washington. D. C., its recently established plan of assisting investigators in scientific research by locating, scientific publications which are not generally or readily accessipbe. Realizing that many scientists lack the library facilities which their work demands, and that they are compelled either to journey to distant libraries or to borrow books by mail, the Service plans to have manuscripts, printed matter, or illustrations copied by Photostat or typewriter. The cost of copying varies from ten to twenty five cents per page. No charge is made...