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___ BULLETIN, MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY PRESIDENT'S REPORT ISSUE UI VOLUME 69 NUMBER 3 OCTOBER, 1933 Published by Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge, Massachusetts .~L;r.·~~~7;?rr~:.a.~a;apr~l)lRu~r~lL~J~-1X if Pu · ad Jne Feruay ascueta oveber Deebr3otn BosonMasachsets,n Otobr, ~e ttePs~~~~~~~~~~~~~; Entered~4 Published by the Massachusetts Institute Boston, Massachusetts, inOctober, November,of February Technology, and CambridgeJune. Station, Entered December 3,1904, at the Post Office, Boston, Massachusetts, as second-class matter, under Act of Congress of July 16, 1894. T VOLUME 69 NUMBER 3 VOLUME 69 NUMBER 3 MASS ACHUSETTS INSTITU TE OF TECHNOLOGY President's Report Issue 1932-1933 Covering period from meeting of Corporation October, 1932 to meeting of Corporation October, 1933 THE TECHNOLOGY PRESS CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS 1933 -- I -~-·------------ ·I ~_ __ I ___ __~_ ~ ___ TABLE OF CONTENTS THE CORPORATION PAGE Members of the Corporation . 5 Committees of the Corporation .6 REPORT OF THE PRESIDENT Changes in Personnel Financial Status Enrollment . Student Aid Educational Policies . Internal Organization Public Service . Public Relations Alumni Affairs . Research Projects The Graduate House Summary 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 Co5peration Secretary of Society of Arts . REPORTS OF THE HEADS OF DEPARTMENTS AND COURSES SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING Aeronautical Engineering 67 Building Engineering and Construction 69 Business and Engineering Administration 70 Chemical Engineering 72 Civil and Sanitary Engineering 74 Electrical Engineering 77 Electrochemical Engineering . 80 Mechanical Engineering .. 81 Meteorology 84 Mining and Metallurgy .. .. 86 Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering 88 SCHOOL OF SCIENCE Biology and Public Health 89 Chemistry . 91 _ _114^____^· _~ _ ~----·I~-----~--~· 195 MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY PAGE General Science and General Engineering 93 Geology 94 Mathematics 96 Physics 96 SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE Architecture ......... 98 Architectural Engineering 99 Division of Drawing S100 DIVISION OF HUMANITIES Economics and Statistics 100 English and History S101 Military Science and Tactics 102 Modern Languages . S103 REPORT OF THE TREASURER 105 PUBLICATIONS OF STAFF .. S181 Index of Authors . THESES PRESENTED FOR DOCTORS' DEGREES . .. .. 193 Index of Authors ..... ...... 197 I _ _ __ _ MEMBERS OF THE CORPORATION 1933-1934 President Vice-President KARL TAYLOR COMPTON VANNEVAR BUSH Secretary* WALTER HUMPHREYS Treasurer Assistant Treasurer EVERETT MORSS HENRY ADAMS MORSS Life Members FRANCIS HENRY WILLIAMS WILLIAM HOWARD BOVEY ABBOTT LAWRENCE LOWELL WILLIAM ROBERT KALES ELIIIU THOMSON JOSEPH WRIGHT POWELL CHARLES AUGUSTUS STONE HENRY ADAMS MORSS FRANCIS RUSSELL HART FRANCIS WRIGHT FABYAN EVERETT MORSS 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 PRITCHARD SLOAN, JR. ARTHUR DEHON LITTLE CHARLES NEAVE FRANKLIN WARREN HOBBS FRANKLIN ATWOOD PARK Term Members Term expires June, 1934 Term expires June, 1936 ALEXANDER MACOMBER FRANCIS JOHN CHESTERMAN CALVIN WINSOR RICE THOMAS CHARLES DESMOND MAURICE RooS SCHARFF HENRY ELWYNE WORCESTER Term expires June, 1935 GODFREY LOWELL CABOT Term expires June, 1937 WILLIAM DAVID COOLIDGE MARTIN HERBERT EISENHART REDFIELD PROCTOR BRADLEY DEWEY Term expires June, 1938 LouIS SHATTUCK CATES HAROLD BOURS RICHMOND ALLAN WINTER ROWE 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~--_-··--~-----·I~·I~-·I~···----~~~.~. ~-~~~sYI-·sYYLI~~ COMMITTEES OF THE CORPORATION FOR 1933-1934 Executive Committee KARL T. COMPTON x oficiis EVERETT MORSS o CHARLES T. MAIN GERARD SWOPE ELIHU THOMSON EDWIN S. WEBSTER FRANCIS R. HART Committee on Finance FRANCIS R. HART CHARLES HAYDEN EDWIN S. WEBSTER VICTOR M. CUTTER JOHN R. MACOMBER THE TREASURER, ex officio Auditing Committee ALEXANDER MACOMBER GODFREY L. CABOT HAROLD B. RICHMOND Committee on Membership CHARLES A. STONE FRANCIS W. FABYAN GERARD SWOPE JOHN E. ALDRED ARTHUR D. LITTLE Committee on Nautical Museum FRANCIS R. HART HENRY A. MORss JOSEPH W. POWELL VISITING COMMITTEES Department of Civil Engineering WILLIAM R. KALES THOMAS C. DESMOND JOHN J. PELLEY FRANKLIN A. PARK Department of Mechanical Engineering CALVIN W. RICE JOHN E. ALDRED REDFIELD PROCTOR WILLIAM R. KALES Departments of Mining and Metallurgy and Geology CHARLES HAYDEN LouIS S. CATES CHARLES A. STONE THOMAS C. DESMOND 6 VISITING COMMITTEES Department of Architecture HARRY J. CARLSON A. FARWELL BEMIs A. LAWRENCE LOWELL THOMAS C. DESMOND Department of Physics WILLIAM D. COOLIDGE ALFRED L. LOOMIS FRANK A. VANDERLIP HARLOW SHAPLEY Department of Electrical Engineering ALFFED L. LOOMIS ALEXANDER MACOMBER CHARLES NEAVE W. CAMERON FORBES MAURICE R. SCHARFF Department of Hygiene ALLAN W. ROWE HARRY J. CARLSON HENRY E. WORCESTER Department of Economics and Statistics FRANKLIN W. HOBBS CALVIN W. RICE ALBERT H. WIGGIN HAROLD B. RICHMOND Department of Business and EngineeringAdministration JOHN R. MACOMBER FRANCIS W. FABYAN ALFRED P. SLOAN, JR. VICTOR M. CUTTER FRANKLIN A. PARK ALBERT H. WIGGIN Departments of English and Modern Languages W. CAMERON FORBES Louis S. CATES PAYSON SMITH FRANCIS J. CHESTERMAN Department of Mathematics HARLOW SHAPLEY FRANCIS J. CHESTERMAN HENRY E. WORCESTER M. HERBERT EISENHART Department of Chemistry ARTHUR D. LITTLE M. HERBERT EISENHART ALLAN W. ROWE FRANK W. LOVEJOY Department of Chemical Engineering BRADLEY DEWEY ARTHUR D. LITTLE HENRY E. WORCESTER FRANK W. LOVEJOY Department of Biology and Public Health MAURICE R. SCHARFF ALLAN W. ROWE HENRY E. WORCESTER REDFIELD PROCTOR FRANCIS H. WILLIAMS j_ 1 I__I____I I____X________II___IIII__IIIIYI1 MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY Department of Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering JOSEPH W. POWELL A. FARWELL BEMIS CHARLES A. STONE HENRY A. MORss Department of Military Science and Tactics ALEXANDER MACOMBER BRADLEY DEWEY WALTER HUMPHREYS Aeronautical Engineering GODFREY L. CABOT WILLIAM H. BOVEY MAURICE R. SCHARFF HENRY A. MoRss Division of IndustrialCo iperation VICTOR M. CUTTER WILLIAM D. COOLIDGE REDFIELD PROCTOR A. FARWELL BEMIS CHARLES NEAVE ALFRED P. SLOAN, JR. Textiles FRANKLIN W. HOBBS FRANCIS W. FABYAN WALTER HUMPHREYS Humanics GODFREY L. CABOT PAYSON SMITH FRANCIS H. WILLIAMS r* __ _ _ ~_~_~ 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, covering changes in personnel, development of educational policies, various important projects in the work of the several departments, some of the problems with which we are confronted, together with the reports of other administrative officers of the Institute with reference to the work of their offices. The Institute has carried on through the present emer- gency without serious impairment of any of its educational processes. Strict economy has been necessary, various desir- able projects have had to remain in abeyance, and the enroll[ ment has decreased somewhat. The spirit of the Institute is, however, excellent and it is ready to proceed effectively in a careful and economical way in order that it may maintain and advance its position in education. CHANGES IN PERSONNEL The Corporation has been strengthened during the past year by the election to Life Membership of Charles Neave and Franklin A. Park. The only other changes have been due to the expiration of the terms of service of Messrs. Lammot du Pont, Frank B. Jewett and William S. Forbes, the benefit of whose counsel we greatly appreciate, and the election of Messrs. Louis S. Cates, Harold B. Richmond and Allan Winter Rowe as new Term Members to serve until June 1938. There have been serious losses and important retirements in the Faculty. Professor Edward F. Miller, long Head of our Department of Mechanical Engineering, died on June 12. Professor William P. Ryan, one of the strongest younger men on the Faculty, and Head of the Department of Chemical Engineering, died suddenly on May 31. In addition, the Faculty has lost through death Professor Harrison W. Hayward of the Department of Mechanical Engineering, and Captain Louis R. _·____ __ MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY Knight, Assistant Professor in the Department of Military Science and Tactics. Professor William A. Johnston of the Department of Mechanical Engineering has been retired on account of physi- cal disability with the title Professor Emeritus. There have been several important retirements for age, each with the title of Professor Emeritus: Professors Robert P. Bigelow, W. Felton Brown, Davis R. Dewey, William Hovgaard, Waldemar Lind- gren, John O. Sumner and Ervin Kenison. Mr. C. Howard Walker, Lecturer in Architecture, retired in June; as did Major Albert S. Smith, for many years Superintendent of Buildings and Power. An arrangement has been made, new to the Insti- tute,