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BULLETIN, MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY PRESIDENT'S REPORT ISSUE Published by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge Station, Boston, Massachusetts, in October, November, February, March, April and May. Entered December 3, 1904, at the Post Office, Boston, Massaohusette, as second-class matter, under Act of Congress of July 16, 1894. VOLUME 64 NUMBER 3 VOLUEIE 64 NUMBER 3 MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY President's Report FOR THE YEAR ENDING JUNE 30, 1928 THE TECHNOLOGY PRESS CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS 1928 TABLE OF CONTENTS THE CORPORATION PAGE Members of the Corporation . .. 5 Committees of the Corporation ... ... 6 REPORT OF THE PRESIDENT ... ... .. 9 THE DEAN OF GRADUATE STUDENTS ........54 THE ASSISTANT DEAN OF STUDENTS 58 THE LIBRARIAN 62 THE REGISTRAR 67 THE TREASURER 74 MEMBERS OF THE CORPORATION 1928-1929 President Secretary' SAMUEL WESLEY STRATTON JAMES PHINNEY MUNROE Treasurer Assistant Treasurer EVERETT MORSS HENRY ADAMS MORSS Life Members HOWARD ADAMS CARSON PIERRE SAMUEL DUPONT FRANCIS HENRY WILLIAMS FRANK ARTHUR VANDERLIP SAMUEL MORSE FELTON OTTO HERMANN KAHN GEORGE WIGGLESWORTH CHARLES HAYDEN JOHN RIPLEY FREEMAN CHARLES THOMAS MAIN ABBOTT LAWRENCE LOWELL GEORGE EASTMAN JAMES PHINNEY MUNROE HARRY JOHAN CARLSON ELIHU THOMSON GERARD SWOPE FREDERICK PERRY FISH ARTHUR DEHON LITTLE CHARLES AUGUSTUS STONE FRANKLIN WARREN HOBBS FRANCIS RUSSELL HART WILLIAM HOWARD BOVEY COLEMAN DUPONT WILLIAM ROBERT KALES EVERETT MORSS JOSEPH WRIGHT POWELL WILLIAM ENDICOTT HENRY ADAMS MORSS WILLIAM CAMERON FORBES FRANCIS WRIGHT FABYAN ALBERT FARWELL BEMIS JOHN EDWARD ALDRED EDWIN SIBLEY WEBSTER FRANK WILLIAM LOVEJOY Term Members Term expires June, 1929 Term expires June, 1931 GEORGE L. GILMORE PAUL WEEKS LITCHFIELD MORRIS KNOWLES JOHN RUSSELL MACOMBER REDFIELD PROCTOR ALFRED PRITCHARD SLOAN, Term expires June, 1930 Term expires June, 1932 JOHN LAWRENCE MAURAN ROGER WARD BABSON ANDREW GRANVILLE PIERCE ELISHA LEE SALMON WILLOUGHBY WILDER WILLIAM ZEBINA RIPLEY Term expires June, 1933 LAMMOT DUFONT FRANK BALDWIN JEWETT WILLIAM EMERY NICKERSON Representatives of the Commonwealth HIS EXCELLENCY, ALVAN TUFTS FULLER, Governor HON. ARTHUR PRENTICE RUGG, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court DR. PAYSON SMITH, Commissioner of Education 'Address correspondence to Massachusetts Institute of Technology. 5 COMMITTEES OF THE CORPORATION FOR 1928-1929 Executive Committee PRESIDENT } Ex OFFIcIIS TREASURER J CHARLES T. MAIN GERARD SWOPE EDWIN S. WEBSTER FRANCIS R. HART ELIHU THOMSON Committee on Finance FRANCIS R. HART EDWIN S. WEBSTER GEORGE WIGGLESWORTH FRANCIS W. FABYAN WILLIAM ENDICOTT THE TREASURER, EX OFFICIO Auditing Committee JOHN R. MACOMBER JOSEPH W. POWELL GEORGE L. GILMORE Committee on Membership GEORGE WIGGLESWORTH FREDERICK P. FISH JAMES P. MUNROE CHARLES A. STONE FRANCIS W. FABYAN Committee on Nautical Museum FRANCIS R. HART JOSEPH W. POWELL HENRY A. MORSS VISITING COMMITTEES Department of Civil and Sanitary Engineering MORRIS KNOWLES JOHN R. FREEMAN HOWARD A. CARSON ELISHA LEE SAMUEL M. FELTON LAMMOT DU PONT Department of Mechanical Engineering ALFRED P. SLOAN, JR. WILLIAM R. KALES ANDREW G. PIERCE Departments of Mining and Metallurgy and Geology CHARLES HAYDEN COLEMAN DUPONT CHARLES A. STONE REDFIELD PROCTOR VISITING COMMITTEES Department of Architecture HARRY J. CARLSON A. LAWRENCE LOWELL JOHN L. MAURAN Department of Physics FREDERICK P. FISH PIERRE S. DUPONT JOHN R. FREEMAN FRANK B. JEWETT Department of Electrical Engineering JOHN E. ALDRED WILLIAM H. BOVEY FRANK B. JEWETT Department of Hygiene HARRY J. CARLSON GEORGE L. GILMORE WILLIAM E. NICKERSON Department of Economics and Statistics (Including the course in EngineeringAdministration) FRANCIS W. FABYAN JOHN R. MACOMBER FRANK A. VANDERLIP WILLIAM Z. RIPLEY ROGER W. BABSON Departments of German, Romance Languages and English JAMES P. MUNROE OTTo H. KAHN FRANCIS W. FABYAN Department of Mathematics WILLIAM R. KALES REDFIELD PROCTOR WILLIAM Z. RIPLEY Departments of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering LAMMOT DUPONT FRANK W. LovEJOY ARTHUR D. LITTLE SALMON W. WILDER Department of Biology and Public Health WILLIAM H. BOVEY W. CAMERON FORBES FRANCIS H. WILLIAMS PAYSON SMITH 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 SAMUEL M. FELTON W. CAMERON FORBES JOSEPH W. POWELL 8 MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY Textiles ANDREW G. PIERCE ARTHUR D. LITTLE FRANKLIN W. HOBBS PAUL W. LITCHFIELD Aeronautical Engineering PAUL W. LITCHFIELD HENRY A. MORSS FRANK W. LOVEJOY Division of Industrial Coilperation and Research A. FARWELL BEMIS SALMON W. WILDER PAUL W. LITCHFIELD Humanics WILLIAM E. NICKERSON ARTHUR D. LITTLE 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 year ending June 30, 1928, covering changes in personnel, the more important points of progress in the work of the various departments, and reports of other administrative officers with reference to the work of their offices. The Corporation has lost one member during the year. Mr. Howard Elliott died at his summer home in Dennis, Massachusetts, on July 8, 1928. He was elected a Life Mem- ber of the Corporation at its meeting on March io, 1915. He served as a member of the Visiting Committee of the Depart- ment of Mechanical Engineering from the time of his election until October, 1926, and as a member of the Visiting Com- mittee of the Department of Mathematics from October, 1918 until his death. The term for which Messrs. Willis R. Whitney, Walter Humphreys and Charles R. Main were elected expired in June. In place of these retiring members, the Corporation elected Messrs. William E. Nickerson, Lammot duPont and Frank B. Jewett. The following changes have taken place in the Faculty: George A. Osborne, Professor Emeritus since June, 1910, died on November 19, 1927. He came to the Institute in 1866 under President Rogers, the founder of the Institute. From 1868 until 1871 he served as Secretary of the Faculty, and in 1870 he was appointed Professor of Mathematics. Upon his death, he bequeathed to the Institute the sum of $io,ooo, of which the net income is to be used for the benefit of the Mathematical Library. Other losses in the Faculty have been occasioned by the resignations of Assistant Professors A. R. Wood, C. H. Band- holtz, H. L. Milan, G. M. O'Connell and T. Phillips. Additions to the Faculty have been made as follows: Dr. 10 MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY Charles R. Gow has been appointed Professor of Humanics, in charge of that subject, mention of which is also made elsewhere in this report; C.-G. A. Rossby has been appointed Associate Professor of Meteorology, W. C. Voss Associate Professor of Building Construction and F. E. Raymond, Assistant Professor of Industrial Research in the Department of Economics and Statistics; Capt. G. S. Eyster, Capt. V. W. Hall, Capt. C. M. Kellogg and Maj. R. H. Somers have been appointed Assistant Professors of Military Science and Tactics; and Lt. R. D. Thomas has been appointed Assistant Professor of Naval Aviation to represent the Navy on the Naval Aviation Unit. The following Associate Professors have been advanced to the grade of Professor: J. B. Babcock, J. W. M. Bunker, H. H. W. Keith, G. Owen, M. J. Shugrue, Charles Terzaghi and C. E. Turner. The following Assistant Professors have been advanced to the grade of Associate Professor: S. A. Breed, W. M. Fife, A. C. Hardy, D. Peabody, T. Smith and H. C. Weber. The following have been appointed Assistant Professors: R. G. Adams, J. C. Balsbaugh, M. R. Copithorne, H. G. deLaszlo, D. M. Fuller, H. C. Hottel, W. A. Liddell, E. Mira- belli, H. Muller, J. A. Stratton, D. J. Struik, K. L. Wildes and J. S. Newell. Those who were foremost in the building up of the Insti- tute as a School of Applied Science (Industrial Science) were keenly alive to the importance of instruction in the fields of the fundamental sciences involved - mathematics, physics, chemistry, and to a growing extent geology and biology. In the last decade or two, great advances have been made which must be taken into account when selecting or providing the material that is to be considered as fundamental to engineering training. There is so much more of the subject matter of science which now enters into engineering, that we must give much more attention to what are the essentials and provide more efficient methods of instruction in the sciences considered fundamental to the engineering courses. Furthermore, there is a rapidly increasing demand in all fields of engineering for men well-grounded in science and the methods of research. This calls for graduate courses based upon a more thorough foundation of advanced mathematics, REPORT OF THE PRESIDENT physics and chemistry than can be given in the undergraduate courses. In fact, men of this type might well be termed physi- cists and chemists, applying such knowledge to the funda- mental problems upon which advance in engineering fields depends. This alone would warrant putting our advanced science work on the very best possible foundation. Every engineering or technical department in the Insti- tute should look forward to taking first place as producers of new methods of construction or data upon which progress in engineering depends. Men are trained in this kind of work by doing it under leaders who not only are masters of it them- selves, but possess the rare faculty of recognizing talent and who find the development of it the most attractive and, to a very large extent, the most important service to any profession. To foster and encourage this spirit is one of the most important steps we can take. The importance of the best science instruction in our undergraduate work, of providing advanced courses as a foun- dation for graduate work in the fields of technology can not be overestimated, but the provision for graduate work in science and the recognition of the value of original investigations, especially in the fields of physics and chemistry, are most vital.