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-I RON~P-.;. BULLETIN, MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY PRESIDENT'S REPORT ISSUE dk-.-PMWMij-~7~ Published by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge Station, Boston, Massachusetts, in October, November, February and June. Entered July 13, 1933, at the Post Office, Boston, Massachusetts, as second-class matter, under Act of Congress of August 24, 1912. .... .... VOLUME 70 NUMBER 1 VOLUME 70 NUMBER 1 MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY President's Report Issue 1933-1934 Covering period from meeting of Corporation October, 1933 to meeting of Corporation October, 1934 • . .*.* ....... .... :: -.. .... .:..:. .. .-: :- -. .. .- THE TECHNOLOGY PRESS CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS 1934 __ 6IAiR ULikiY Of AIA8A11ETIS JUL 28 19t37 ~I~~ -~~~· .. · -- .-. .- ..··1 - ' -. ... .~"· ··~ ·~ :'+ · ·• t· ":*:. i -:'! . ..*. .. ' .. .::. .: : . ., :~~~ee·2,:" ~~• ,:.. ··- ." ' . ~·······l······ ···.•-..w F··· · .e ron •L • _______ Is- TABLE OF CONTENTS THE CORPORATION PAGE Members of the Corporation ..... 5 Committees of the Corporation . 6 REPORT OF THE PRESIDENT Personnel .. ......... 10 Finances . 12 Students . 13 Facilities .......... 15 Educational Program 17 Research . ... 18 Industrial Co6peration and Public Service ..... 22 Alumni Association ........ 24 A Look Ahead .. ........ 25 REPORTS OF OTHER ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICERS Dean of Students .. Dean of the Graduate School Registrar . Chairman of Committee on Summer Session . Librarian .. Medical Director . Director of the Division of Industrial Co6peration Secretary of Society of Arts .. Director of Admissions Director of News Service REPORTS OF THE HEADS OF DEPARTMENTS AND COURSES SCHOOL or ENGINEERING Aeronautical Engineering ... Building Engineering and Construction Business and Engineering Administration Chemical Engineering Civil and Sanitary Engineering . Electrical Engineering Electrochemical Engineering . Mechanical Engineering . Meteorology Mining and Metallurgy . ,. Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering SCHOOL OF SCIENCE Biology and Public Health Chemistry . .. 4 MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY PAGE General Science and General Engineering .. ... 100 Geology .............. 101 Mathematics .. .. .. .. .. 103 Physics .............. 104 SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE Architecture .. .. .. .. .. 106 City Planning . 107 Architectural Engineering . 108 Division of Drawing . .. .. .. 109 DIVISION OF HUMANITIES Economics and Social Science . .. .. 110 English and History . .. .. 111 Military Science and Tactics . .. .. .. 112 Modern Languages . .. .. .. .. 113 REPORT OF THE TREASURER . .. 115 PUBLICATIONS OF STAFF . .. .. .. 188 Index of Authors . .. .. 204 THESES PRESENTED FOR DOCTORS' DEGREES . 201 Index of Authors . .. 206 MEMBERS OF THE CORPORATION 1934-1935 President Vice-President KARL TAYLOR COMPTON VANNEVAR BUSH Secretary* Treasurer WALTER HUMPHREYS HORACE SAYFORD FORD Life Members FRANCIS HENRY WILLIAMS WILLIAM ROBERT KALES ABBOTT LAWRENCE LOWELL JOSEPH WRIGHT POWELL ELIHU THOMSON HENRY ADAMS MORSS CHARLES AUGUSTUS STONE FRANCIS WRIGHT FAYAN FRANCIS RUSSELL HART JOHN EDWARD ALDRED WILLIAM CAMERON FORBES FRANK WILLIAM LOVEJOY ALBERT FARWELL BEMIS WALTER HUMPHREYS EDWIN SIBLEY WEBSTER VICTOR MACOMBER CUTTER PIERRE SAMUEL DUPONT ALBERT HENRY WIGGIN FRANK ARTHUR VANDERLIP JOHN RUSSELL MACOMBER CHARLES HAYDEN ALFRED LEE LOOMIS CHARLES THOMAS MAIN JOHN JEREMIAH PELLEY HARRY JOHAN CARLSON HARLOW SHAPLEY GERARD SWOPE ALFRED PPITCHARD SLOAN, JR. ARTHUR DEHON LITTLE CHARLES NEAVE FRANKLIN WARPEN HOBBS FRANKLIN ATWOOD PARK WILLIAM HOWARD BOVEY LAMMOT DUPONT FRANK BALDWIN JEWETT Term Members Term expires June, 1935 Term expires June, 1937 GODFREY LOWELL CABOT BRADLEY DEWEY WILLIAM DAVID COOLIDGE MARTIN HERBERT EISENHART REDFIELD PROCTOR DONALD GOODRICH ROBBINS Term expires June, 1936 Term expires June, 1938 FRANCIS JOHN CHESTERMAN Louis SHATTUCK CATES THOMAS CHARLES DESMOND HAROLD BOURS RICHMOND HENRY ELWYNE WORCESTER ALLAN WINTER ROWE Term expires June, 1939 JAMES MADISON BARKER WILLIS FLEMING HARRINGTON WILLIAM RUSSELL HEDGE Representatives of the Commonwealth HIs EXCELLENCY, JOSEPH BUELL ELY, Governor HoN. ARTHUR PRENTICE RUGG, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court DR. PAYSON SMITH, Commissioner of Education *Address correspondence to Massachusetts Institute of Technology. _. I __ _ COMMITTEES OF THE CORPORATION FOR 1934-1935 Executive Committee KARL T. COMPTON 'Ex oficiis HORACE S. FORD ] EDWIN S. WEBSTER FRANCIS R. HART REDFIELD PROCTOR GERARD SWOPE ELIHU THOMSON Committee on Finance FRANCIS R. HART JOHN R. MACOMBER ALFRED L. LoomIS CHARLES HAYDEN EDWIN S. WEBSTER THE TREASURER, ex officio Auditing Committee GODFREY L. CABOT HAROLD B. RICHMOND WILLIAM R. HEDGE Committee on Membership CHARLES A. STONE FRANCIS W. FABYAN GERARD SWOPE JOHN E. ALDRED ARTHUR D. LITTLE VISITING COMMITTEES Depatrtment of Civil and Sanitary Engineering WVILLIA'V R. KALES CHARLES T. MAIN HARRISON P. EDDY JOHN J. PELLEY ARTHUR W. DEAN FRANK E. WINSOR A. FARWELL BEMIS HERBERT T. GERRISH Department of Mechanical Engineering FRANKLIN A. PARK ALFRED P. SLOAN, JR. JOHN E. OTTERSON JOHN E. ALDRED FREDERICK G. COBURN HENRY M. CRANE CHARLES T. MAIN DAVID S. REYNOLDS Depjrtment of Mining and Metallurgy CHARLES HAYDEN LoUIs S. CATES QUINCY A. SHAW, JR. THOMAS C. DESMOND EDWIN D. MARTIN GALEN H. CLEVENGER BRADLEY DEWEY GEORGE A. PACKARD Department of Geology LOUIS S. CATES GODFREY L. CABOT BRIG. GEN. EDWARD M. CHARLES A. STONE FREDERICK G. CLAPP MARKHAM HARLOW SHAPLEY ROBERT LIVERMORE WALTER C. MENDENHALL 6 VISITING COMMITTEES Department of Architecture HARRY J. CARLSON FRANKLIN A. PARK GEOFFREY PLATT THOMAS C. DESMOND EDGAR I. WILLIAMS SIDNEY WAUGH A. LAWRENCE LOWELL RALPH T. WALKER Department of Physics WILLIAM D. COOLIDGE DONALD G. ROBBINS HENRY A. BARTON ALFRED L. LOOMIS CHARLES G. ABBOT F. K. RICHTMYER FRANK A. VANDERLIP BAILEY TOWNSHEND Departmentof Electrical Engineering ALFRED L. LoomIs FRANK B. JEWETT HENRY A. WISE WOOD W. CAMERON FORBES THOMAS SPOONER J. ALLEN JOHNSON CHARLES NEAVE DON L. GALUSHA Department of Hygiene ALLAN WINTER ROWE LAMMOT DUPONT HAVEN EMERSON, M.D. HARRY J. CARLSON MARSHALL B. DALTON JOEL GOLDTHWAIT, M.D. HENRY E. WORCESTER DONALD F. CARPENTER Department of Economics and Social Science VICTOR M. CUTTER WILLIAM R. HEDGE WILSON M. COMPTON FRANKLIN W. HOBBS RUDOLPH F.HAFFENREFFER CARL SNYDER HAROLD B. RICHMOND LEWIS W. DOUGLAS Department of Business and Engineering Administration JOHN R. MACO)MBER JAMES M. BARKER PHILIP R. ALLEN FRANCIS W. F ABYAN HAROLD V. COES CARL P. DENNETT ALBERT H. WIIGGIN GEORGE W. TREAT Department of English and Histo FRANCIS J. CHESTERMAN DONALD G. ROBBINS GEN. WILLIAM D. CONNOR PAYSON SMITH EDWARD P. BROOKS ROBERT I. REES A. FARWELL BEMIS J. RHYNE KILLIAN, JR. Department of Modern Languages W. CAMERON FORBES JAMES M. BARKER DONALD W. KITCHIN A. LAWRENCE LOWELL INGERSOLL BOWDITCH FREDERICK W. C. LIEDER A. F. WHITTEM Department of Mathematics M. HERBERT EISENHART WILLIS F. HARRINGTON LUTHER P. EISENHART FRANCIS J. CHESTERMAN GEORGE A. CAMPBELL ROLAND G. D. RICHARDSON HENRY E. WORCESTER RALPH D. BOOTH MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY Department of Chemistry ARTHUR D. LITTLE WILLIS F. HARRINGTON CLAUDE C. VAN NuYs FRANK W. LovEjoY GEORGE T. COTTLE WALTER S. LANDIS M. HERBERT EISENHART SALMON W. WILDER Department of Chemical Engineering BRADLEY DEWEY HENRY E. WORCESTER CHARLES M. A. STINE ARTHUR D. LITTLE SAMUEL CABOT MILTON C. WHITAKER FRANK W. LOVEJOY GEORGE H. TABER, JR. Department of Biology and Public Health ALLAN WINTER ROWE HENRY E. WORCESTER HENRY VAUGHAN DR. FRANCIS H. WILLIAMS HARRISON P. EDDY FRED C. BLANCK FRANCIS W. FABYAN LEWIS W. WATERS Department of Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering JOSEPH W. POWELL WILLIAM S. NEWELL JOHN E. BURKHARDT HENRY A. MoIRSS CAPT. CLAYTON M. H. HARRIS ROBSON CHARLES A. STONE SIXMMERS Department of Military Science and Tactics BRADLEY DEWEY COL. CLIFTON C. CARTER COL. OLIVER L. WALTER HUMPHREYS CAPT. PAUL W. GEORGE SPAULDING, JR. HAROLD B. RICHMOND BRIG. GEN. ALSTON HAMILTON Aeronautical Engineering GODFREY L. CABOT COMDR. R. D. HARRY F. GUGGENHEIM WILLIAM H. BOVEY WEYERBACHER GEORGE W. LEWIS HENRY A. MORSS DONALD W. DOUGLAS Division of Industrial Coaiperation CHARLES NEAVE FRANK B. JEWETT ISAAC HARTER WILLIAM D. COOLIDGE GEORGE P. DIKE WILLIAM B. GIVEN, JR. ALFRED P. SLOAN, JR. CHARLES R. BOGGS Textiles FRANKLIN W. HOBBS ALBERT R. PIERCE H. NELSON SLATER WALTER HUMPHREYS RUSSELL B. LOWE E. DEAN WALEN FRANCIS W. FABYAN Committee on Nautical Museum FRANCIS R. HART HENRY A. MORss JOSEPH W. POWELL Library HARLOW SHAPLEY WALTER HUMPHREYS DONALD G. ROBBINS __ 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 a report on the Massachusetts Institute of Technology for the past year, analyzing its present situa- tion, describing its accomplishments, and mentioning some of its problems. My report carries a distinct note of satisfaction and optimism, tempered, however, by a realization of the grave responsibilities which rest on the entire constituency of the Institute, but especially on its Corporation and administrative officers, in order that it may perform its functions in the unsettled future with the greatest possible effectiveness. Due to the able and devoted work of the Treasurer and the Finance Committee, to the splendid codperation of the staff, to the Loan Fund, and the curtailment or consolidation of certain activities, the Institute has been able satisfactorily to meet the financial difficulties arising from reduced