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VOLUME 67 NUMBER 3 VOLUME 67 NUMBER 3 MASS ACHUSETTS INSTITU TE OF TECHNOLOGY President's Report 1930-1931 Covering period from meeting of Corporation October 8, 1930 to meeting of Corporation October 14, 1931 THE TECHNOLOGY PRESS CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS 1931 _ __ I 1 -1--111 __ _ _ _ __ __ __ TABLE OF CONTENTS THE CORPORATION PAGE Members of the Corporation ... 5 Committees of the Corporation ... .. .. .. 6 REPORT OF THE PRESIDENT Changes in Personnel . Matters of General Policy . Buildings . Needs of the Institute . Summary of Reports of Other Administrative Officers REPORTS OF OTHER ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICERS Dean ........ Dean of Graduate Students . .. Registrar .. ..... Chairman of Committee on Summer Session Librarian . .. .... Medical Director . Director of Division of Industrial Co6peration and Research Acting Director of Division of Municipal and Industrial Research Secretary of Society of Arts . REPORTS OF HEADS OF DEPARTMENTS AND COURSES Aeronautical Engineering Architecture Architectural Engineering . Biology and Public Health . Building Construction . Business and Engineering Administration . Chemical Engineering . Chemistry Civil and Sanitary Engineering . Drawing . .. Economics and Statistics Electrical Engineering .. Electrochemical Engineering English and History Fuel and Gas Engineering . Geology . ..... Mathematics . .... Mechanical Engineering .. Meteorology . .. Military Science and Tactics .. Mining and Metallurgy . .. .. Modern Languages.. Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering . Physics . ...... .. REPORT OF THE TREASURER . 33 ____^_1__1 Ill·Y _-~1 -- ~_~~_I ~ __~ _ ~ MEMBERS OF THE CORPORATION 1931-1932 Chairman President SAMUEL WESLEY STRATTON* KARL TAYLOR COMPTON Secretaryt WALTER HUMPHREYS Treasurer Assistant Treasurer EVERETT MORSS HENRY ADAMS MORSS Life Members FRANCIS HENRY WILLIAMS GE RARD SWOPE JOHN RIPLEY, FREEMAN ARTHUR DEHON LITTLE ABBOTT LAWRENCE LOWELL FR ANKLIN WARREN HOBBS ELIHU THOMSON WI[LLIAM HOWARD BOVEY CHARLES AUGUSTUS STONE WI ILLIAM ROBERT KALES FRANCIS RUSSELL HART JO,SEPH WRIGHT POWELL EVERETT MORSS HENRY ADAMS MORSS WILLIAM CAMERON FORBES FRANCIS WRIGHT FABYAN ALBERT FARWELL BEMIS JO:HN EDWARD ALDRED EDWIN SIBLEY WEBSTER FRANK WILLIAM LOVEJOY PIERRE SAMUEL DUPONT W ALTER HUMPHREYS FRANK ARTHUR VANDERLIP VI cTOR MACOMBER CUTTER CHARLES HAYDEN ALBERT HENRY WIGGIN CHARLES THOMAS MAIN JOlHN RUSSELL MACOMBER GEORGE EASTMAN ALFRED LEE LOOMIS HARRY JOHAN CARLSON JOi HN JEREMIAH PELLEY Term Members Term expires June, 1932 rerm expires June, 1934 ROGER WARD BABSON EXANDER MACOMBER ELISHA LEE LVIN WINSOR RICE WILLIAM ZEBINA RIPLEY AURICE Roos SCHARFF Term expires June, 1933 Term expires June, 1935 LAMMOT DUPONT GODFREY LOWELL CABOT WILLIAM STUART FORBES WILLIAM DAVID COOLIDGE FRANK BALDWIN JEWETT REDFIELD PROCTOR Term expires June, 1936 FRANCIS JOHN CHESTERMAN THOMAS CHARLES DESMOND HENRY ELWYNE WORCESTER 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 * Died October i8, 1031 t Address correspondence to Massachusetts Institute of Technology. ~ li·l~srrr~-~·-·-~------~~~ ~1~~.~, COMMITTEES OF THE CORPORATION FOR 1931-1932 Executive Committee SAMUEL W. STRATTON t KARL T. COMPTON Ex Officiis EVERETT MORSS FRANCIS R. HART CHARLES T. MAIN GERARD SWOPE ELIHU THOMSON EDWIN S. WEBSTER Committee on Finance FRANCIS R. HART CHARLES HAYDEN JOHN R. MACOMBER EDWIN S. WEBSTER VICTOR M. CUTTER THE TREASURER, ex officio Auditing Committee FRANKLIN W. HOBBS ALEXANDER MACOMBER WILLIAM S. FORBES Committee on Membership JOHN E. ALDRED GERARD SWOPE FRANCIS W. FABYAN CHARLES A. STONE ARTHUR D. LITTLE Committee on Nautical Museum FRANCIS R. HART JOSEPH W. POWELL HENRY A. MORSS VISITING COMMITTEES Department of Civil Engineering JOHN R. FREEMIAN JOHN J. PELLEY ELISHA LEE LAMMOT DUPONT Department of Mechanical Engineering CALVIN W. RICE WILLIAM R. KALES REDFIELD PROCTOR JOHN R. FREEMIAN JOHN E. ALDRED Departments of Mining and Metallurgy and Geology CHARLES HAYDE N CHARLES A. STONE THOMAS C. DESMOND t Died October 18, i931. " I VISITING COMMITTEES Department of Architecture HARRY J. CARLSON A. LAWRENCE LOWELL A. FARWELL BEMIS THOMAS C. DESMOND Department of Physics WILLIAM D. COOLIDGE ALFRED L. Looms FRANK B. JEWETT FRANCIS J. CHESTERMAN Department of ElectricalEngineering FRANK B. JEWETT WILLIAM H. BOVEY MAURICE R. SCHARFF ALEXANDER MACOMBER Department of Hygiene HARRY J. CARLSON WILLIAM R. KALES WILLIAM S. FORBES Department of Economics and Statistics WILLIAM Z. RIPLEY FRANCIS W. FABYAN CALVIN W. RICE FRANKLIN W. HOBBS ROGER W. BABSON Department of Business and Engineering Administration JOHN R. MACOMBER FRANK W. LOVEJOY ALBERT H. WIGGIN FRANCIS W. FABYAN VICTOR M. CUTTER Departments of English and Modern Languages WILLIAM H. BOVEY W. CAMERON FORBES FRANCIS J. CHESTERMAN PAYSON SMITH Department of Mathematics WILLIAM R. KALES WILLIAM Z. RIPLEY ROGER W. BABSON HENRY E. WORCESTER Departments of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering LAMMOT DUPONT ARTHUR D. LITTLE FRANK W. LOVEJOY Department of Biology and Public Health MAURICE R. SCHARFP FRANCIS H. WILLIAMS WILLIAM H. BOVEY REDFIELD PROCTOR Department of Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering JOSEPH W. POWELL CHARLES A. STONE A. FARWELL BEMIS HENRY A. MORss 1 _1--1---·11 8 MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY Department of Military Science and Tactics ALEXANDER MACOMBER JOSEPH W. POWELL WALTER HUMPHREYS Aeronautical Engineering GODFREY L. CABOT HENRY A. MORSS ELISHA LEE Division of Industrial Cobiperation and Research A. FARWELL BEMI S WILLIAM D. COOLIDGE REDFIELD PROCTOR HENRY E. WORCESTER Textiles FRANKLIN W. HOBBS ARTHUR D. LITTLE WALTER HUMPHREYS Humanics GODFREY L. CABOT FRANCIS H. WILLIAMS PAYSON SMITH 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 for the past year, covering changes in personnel, the more important points of progress in the work of the various departments, various problems of the future, and reports of other administrative officers with refer- ence to the work of their offices. CHANGES IN PERSONNEL During the year, the Corporation has lost three of its most active and eminent members: Mr. Frederick P. Fish died on November 6, 193o, having been a life member for more than twenty-eight years; Mr. Coleman du Pont died on November II, I930, after a membership of twenty-four years; Mr. George Wigglesworth died on November 26, 1930, having served as life member for thirty-nine years during sixteen years of which time he held the important office of Treasurer of the Institute. On the side of gains, the Corporation has been strength- ened during the year by the election to Life Membership of Mr. Albert H. Wiggin, Mr. Alfred L. Loomis, Mr. John J. Pelley and Mr. John R. Macomber, the latter having served for four years as Term Member. The only other changes in the Corporation have been those due to the expiration of the term of service of Messrs. Paul W. Litchfield and Alfred P. Sloan, Jr. The new Term Members elected in June last were Messrs. Thomas C. Desmond, H. E. Worcester and Francis J. Chesterman to serve until June 1936 and Mr. William S. Forbes to serve until June 1933, filling the unexpired term of Mr. William E. Nickerson. Faculty losses have been as follows: Professor Frank Vogel retired on July I, 1931, with the title "Professor Emeritus"; Colonel Robert C. Eddy has retired as Professor of Military Science and Tactics and has been appointed Associate Professor in the Department of Business and Engineering Administration; H. O. Forrest, Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering and Director of the Research Laboratory of Applied Chemistry has 9 ---·- ~----- I I-- 10 MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY resigned, as have also the following Assistant Professors: W. R. Barss, W. G. Brown, F. L. Cronin, G. S. Eyster, T. H. Frost, M. Knobel, R. M. Langer, and L. H. Young. Additions to the Faculty have been as follows: Colonel S. C. Vestal has been appointed Professor of Military Science and Tactics in charge of the Department; W. Spannhake, Visiting Professor of Hydraulics; Commander H. E. Rossell, Professor of Naval Construction; L. J. Bircher, Visiting Pro- fessor of Chemistry; R. D. Bennett, Associate Professor of Elec- trical Measurements; Robert B. Brode, Associate Professor of Physics; Ralph E. Freeman, Associate Professor of Economics; L. B. Slichter, Associate Professor of Geophysics; G. A. Bicher, Assistant Professor of Military Science and Tactics; V. Guil- lemin, Jr., Assistant Professor of Physics; Philip M. Morse, Assistant Professor of Physics; W. B. Nottingham, Assistant Professor of Physics. Mr. T. P. Pitre has been appointed Assistant Dean. Professor E. H. Schell has been appointed Head of the Department of Business and Engineering Administration; Professor C. F. Taylor, Head of the Department