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...chemical laboratory for the thousand Professors and students now obliged to work in Boylston Hall. We have two admirable small laboratories--the Gibbs and Coolidge Memorial buildings--but they together accommodate only about 100, and according to deed of gift the Gibbs Laboratory is to be devoted wholly to research...
...laboratory was the first in America to make physical research its predominant aim. The work of a great grandson has made possible a realization of the liberal university view of President Jefferson, who was the first in America to see the importance of the prosecution of science. In my last interview with Mr. Coolidge he expressed the hope that the laboratory would not be given over to mere elementary teaching, and he said, "If you succeed in turning out a Michael Faraday I shall be well satisfied...
...factors make the Commission's work important; the necessity for further treatment of those already paralyzed; and research work which shall effectively check the spread of a comparatively strange disease. Feeling that its first duty was to care for the paralyzed children, the members of the Commission have given much time and effort without compensation and with a limited budget. But no enterprise of this sort can be carried on without funds. The other side of the work--the study and tabulation of data, the experimental research--has been handicappel by slim support. Those of us who live outside...
...markets, an increase in the number of business failures, easier money as the result of the release of credit by liquidation in commodity market and an increase of security prices," is the forecast of the Advance Letter on General Business Conditions issued recently by the University Committee on Economic Research...
This statistical work dates back to 1917, when the University appointed a Committee on Economic Research. Investigation of methods of interpreting fundamental business statistics, with a view to ascertaining whether it was possible to treat such statistics in a manner that would make them more valuable both for business and scientific purposes, was the first field undertaken. To conduct this investigation the committee engaged Professor Persons, formerly of Dartmouth and Colorado Colleges, who in 1917 served as Lecturer in Economics at the University. He was also the author of many scientific papers dealing with business statistics in a new manner...