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1923 Entered December 3, 1904, at the Post Office, Boston, Mass., As Second Class Matter, Under Act of Congress of July 16, 1894 Vol.59,No.3. BULLETIN, MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, October. 1923 Entered December 3, 1904, at the Post Office, Boston, Mass., as second class matter, under Act of Congress of July 16, 1894 Massachusetts Institute of Technology PRESIDENT'S REPORT OCTOBER, 1923 .r Cambridge, Massachusetts `·' · 1923 r 5 · ·· · ·· '·· '· ·· ~~U~ ~olabz~~,~, -,,.,,~,~ar~---~l;-~uPllib i-~- MAIN ENTRANCE FROM EASTMAN COURT K ___ Published by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge in December, January, March and June. MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY REPORTS OF THE PRESIDENT AND TREASURER FOR THE YEAR ENDING JUNE 30, 1923 THE TECHNOLOGY PRESS CAMBRIDGE, MlASSACHUSETTS 1928 j K TABLE OF CONTENTS THE CORPORATION PAGE Members of the Corporation . ................ 5 Committees of the Corporation . ............... 6 REPORT OF THE PRESIDENT . .......... ........ 9 REPORTS OF ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICERS Report of the Dean of Students . ............... 18 Report of the Secretary of the Faculty . ............ 20 Report on Summer Session . ............... 21 Report of the Librarian . ............. ... .. 24 Report of the Director, Division of Industrial Co6peration and Research ........................ 29 Report of the Registrar: Statistics .............. 32 Report of the Committee on Advanced Degrees and Fellowships .. 49 SOCIETY OF ARTS .................... 51 REPORTS OF THE DEPARTMENTS Civil and Sanitary Engineering ................ Mechanical Engineering ................... Mining, Metallurgy and Geology . .............. Architecture ........ .............. Division of Drawing . .................. Chemistry ... ..... .... .... ......... Research Laboratory of Physical Chemistry ......... Electrical Engineering .................... Biology and Public Health .................. Physics . ... .... ... ... .... ... ... .. Chemical Engineering .................... School of Chemical Engineering Practice . ......... Research Laboratory of Applied Chemistry ......... Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering . ......... Economics and Statistics ................... English and History .............. Mathematics ........................ Military Science and Tactics . ........ ........ Hygiene .......................... Division of General Studies .............. Publications . REPORT OF THE TREASURER j I MEMBERS OF THE CORPORATION for 1923-1924 President Secretary' SAMUEL WESLEY STRATTON JAMES PHINNEY MUNROE Treasurer EVERETT MORSS Executive Committee PRESIDENT EX OFFICIIS TREASURER ) CHARLES T. MAIN FREDERICK P. FISH EDWIN S. WEBSTER FRANCIS R. HART ELIHU THOMSON Life Members HOWARD ADAMS CARSON EVERETT MORSS FRANCIS HENRY WILLIAMS WILLIAM ENDICOTT SAMUEL MORSE FELTON WILLIAM CAMERON FORBES DESMOND FITZGERALD ALBERT FARWELL BEMIS GEORGE WIGGLESWORTH HOWARD ELLIOTT JOHN RIPLEY FREEMAN EDWIN SIBLEY WEBSTER WILLIAM HENRY LINCOLN PIERRE SAMUEL DU PONT ABBOTT LAWRENCE LOWELL FRANK ARTHUR VANDERLIP JAMES PHINNEY MUNROE OTTo HERMAN KAHN WILLIAM LOWELL PUTNAM CHARLES HAYDEN ELIHU THOMSON CHARLES THOMAS MAIN FREDERICK PERRY FISH GEORGE EASTMAN CHARLES AUGUSTUS STONE HARRY JOHN CARLSON FRANCIS RUSSELL HART GERARD SWOPE COLEMAN DU PONT ARTHUR DEHON LITTLE FRANKLIN WARREN IOBBS Term Members Term expires June, 19: Term expires June, 1926 MERTON LESLIE EMERSON VAN RENSSELAER LANSINGH JAMES FRANKLIN McELWAIN FRANK LOVERING LOCKE HENRY ADAMS MORSS LEONARD METCALF Term expires June, 19•95 Term expires June, 1927 MATTHEW CHAUNCEY BLRUSH LESTER DURAND GARDNER FRANCIS WRIGHT FABYAAN FRANK WILLIAM LOVEJOY FRANKLIN THOMAS MILLER WILLIAM CHAPMAN POTTER Term expires June, 1928 WILLIS RODNEY WHITNEY WALTER HUMPHREYS CHARLES REED MAIN Representatives of the Commonwealth HIS EXCELLENCY, CHANNING HARRIS COX, Governor HON. ARTHUR PRENTICE RUGG, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court DR. PAYSON SMITH, Commissioner of Education 1Address correspondence to Massachusetts Institute of Technology. COMMITTEES OF THE CORPORATION for 1923-1924 Executive Committee PRESIDENT EX OFFICIIS TREASURER ý CHARLES T. MAIN FREDERICK P. FISH EDWIN S. WEBSTER FRANCIS R. HART ELIHU THOMSON Committee on Finance FRANCIS R. HART WILLIAM ENDICOTT GEORGE WIGGLESWORTH W. CAMERON FORBES A. FARWELL BEMIS TREASURER, EX OFFICIO Auditing Committee MERTON L. EMERSON WILLIAM L. PUTNAM FRANCIS W. FABYAN Committee on Membership GEORGE WIGGLESWORTH JAMES P. MUNROE JOHN R. FREEMAN CHARLES A. STONE WALTER HUMPHREYS VISITING COMMITTEES Department of Civil and Sanitary Engineering DESMOND FITZGERALD SAMUEL M. FELTON HOWARD A. CARSON LEONARD METCALF Department of Mechanical Engineering JOHN R. FREEMAN FRANKLIN W. HOBBS HOWARD ELLIOTT MATTHEW C. BRUSH CHARLES R. MAIN Department of Mining, Metallurgy and Geology CHARLES HAYDEN COLEMAN DU PONT WILLIAM C. POTTER Department of Architecture HARRY J. CARLSON A. FARWELL BEMIS A. LAWRENCE LOWELL OTTO H. KAHN VISITING COMMITTEES Department of Physics PIERRE S. DU PONT FRANK W. LOVEJOY GERARD SWOPIEP WILLIS R. WHITNEY Department of Electrical Engineering ELIHU THOMSO,N FRANKLIN T. MILLER CHARLES A. S5TONE VAN RENSSELAER LANSINGH Department of Economics and Statistics W. CAMERON FORBES FRANKLIN T. MILLER FRANK A. VAN[DERLIP LESTER D. GARDNER J. FRANKLIN 1\ICELWAIN WALTER HUMPHREYS Departments of Modern Languages and English JAMES P. MUN[ROE FRANCIS W. FABYAN PAYSON SMITH FRANK L. LOCKE Department of Mathematics MERTON L. EMERSON WILLIAM L. PUTNAM HOWARD ELLIOTT Departments of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering WILLIS R. WHITNEY FRANCIS W. FABYAN ARTHUR D. LITTLE FRANK W. LOVEJOY CHARLES R. MAIN Department of Biology and Public Health FRANCIS H. WILLIAMS DESMOND FITZGERALD LEONARD METCALF Department of Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering A. FARWELL BEMIS CHARLES A. STONE WILLIAM H. LINCOLN HENRY A. MORSS Department of Military Science and Tactics FRANK L. LOCKE W. CAMERON FORBES SAMUEL M. FELTON HENRY A. MORSS ~~,, REPORT OF THE PRESIDENT To THE MEMBERS OF THE CORPORATION: In accordance with the by-laws of the Corporation I have the honor to submit to you a report upon the work of the Institute during the preceding year, appending, as usual, reports from other administrative officers with reference to the work of their special departments. The Corporation. The term for which Messrs. Paul W. Litchfield, Arthur D. Little and Eben S. Stevens were elected expired in June. In place of the retiring Term Members, the Corporation has elected Messrs. Willis R. Whitney, Walter Humphreys and Charles R. Main, upon nomination by the Alumni Association. An event of interest during the year was the election and inauguration of the new President, who was appointed by the Executive Committee on September 19, 1922, the appointment being confirmed by the Corporation at its meeting on October 11, 1922, the new President to take office January 1, 1923. The inaugural ceremonies were held on June 11, 1923. Credit for the arrangements was due to the Committee appointed to take charge of the event - Messrs. E. Morss, J. P. Munroe, A. D. Little, F. W. Fabyan, J. F. McElwain and L. Metcalf on the part of the Corpora- tion; Messrs. H. W. Tyler, E. F. Miller, A. L. Merrill, C. L. Norton, W. Emerson, H. P. Talbot and D. R. Dewey on the part of the Faculty; H. J. Carlson, G. L. Gilmore, W. Humphreys and A. T. Hopkins on the part of the Alumni Association. The Faculty. During the year the Faculty has lost the services of Prof. Louis Derr, who died on May 11, 1923. He was graduated from the Institute in 1892, and began service at the Institute as Assistant in the fall of 1892. Since that time he has held the positions of Assistant, Instructor, Assistant Professor, Associate Professor and Professor up 10 MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY to the time of his death - a period of thirty-one years, all of which was spent in the Department of Physics. Col. John B. Christian, Professor of Military Science and Tactics and Head of the Department, resigned on October 3, 1922, and Col. F. W. Phisterer was appointed to that position. Prof. F. G. Keyes, who has served during the year as Acting Head of the Department of Chemistry, has been appointed Head of that Department, from July 1, 1923. The following appointments have been made: Mr. R. G. Tyler, Associate Professor of Sanitary Engi- neering; Mr. James A. Beattie, Assistant Professor of Physico- Chemical Research; Mr. W. G. Brown, Assistant Professor of Aeronautics; Mr. C. P. Burgess, Assistant Professor of Airship Design; Mr. John T. Ward, Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering; Mr. J. C. MacKinnon, Registrar, and Mr. G. T. Welch, Assistant Registrar. Registration. The registration is now 2,954, of which 560 are freshmen. The corresponding figures last year were 3,166 and 607. The incoming class appears to be quite up to the standard and every effort will be made to assist them in the selection of courses and in many matters of the utmost importance to young men entering college. Generally too little is done to assist the freshmen in anticipating the work before them, and we could do much more than we do along these lines. Aldred Lectures. We are greatly indebted to Mr. J. E. Aldred for the provision of funds for a series of lectures by prominent men - men who have made a success in the various fields of engineering and who can, in describing their work, give to the students not only technical information, but a picture of the problems to be met in practice, and especially the necessity for common sense in engineering. The sum provided for these lectures is $5,000 per year for a period of five years. The lectures are primarily for REPORT OF THE
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