~-----~'~ ·-~·II.·LU*C..I~Yy..·Cy-·-·-^·II··._~·yl_ ·I ILtl·-- I· ·X-~~ BULLETIN, MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY PRESIDENT'S REPORT ISSUE I'I VOLUME 68 NUMBER 3 OCTOBER, 1932 Published by Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge, Massachusetts s I-..---Y~lP~. ~ -- l~~--9C~ I~~~~-P*q.4mv- lu~L'r~"rL~^r~·r- - -- -- F-CC-` ~ Published by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge Station, Boston, Massachusetts, in October, November, February, March, April and May. Entered December 3, 9go4, at the Post Office, Boston, Mass., as second-class matter, under Act of Congress of July i6, 1894. VOLUME 68 NUMBER 3 VOLUME 68 NUMBER 3 MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY President's Report 1931-1932 Covering period from meeting of Corporation October, 1931 to meeting of Corporation October, 1932 THE TECHNOLOGY PRESS CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS 1932 ~I·1I·II~--~------·I11~·s~·1*-··1~-··.~l___)·-~i·I~I1IY~-~----~ ---- --- __ I TABLE OF CONTENTS THE CORPORATION PAGE Members of the Corporation . ... .... Committees of the Corporation .. .. .. 6 REPORT OF THE PRESIDENT Changes in Personnel Administration . Operating Units Plan of Instruction . Activities of the Staff Student Relations Alumni Educational Plant Institute Policy in Regard to Patents 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 Cooperation Director of the Division of Municipal and Industrial Research Society of Arts REPORTS OF THE HEADS OF DEPARTMENTS AND COURSES SCHOOL OF 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 General Science and Engineering . SCHOOL OF SCIENCE 99 Biology and Public Health 99 Chemistry . ....... 102 I ·- I MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY PAGE Geology 106 Mathematics 107 Military Science and Tactics 108 Physics SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE 110 Architecture 110 Architectural Engineering 112 Drawing S .112 DIVISION OF HUMANITIES .... 113 Economics and Statistics .... 113 English and History ... 113 Modern Languages .... 114 REPORT OF THE TREASURER .... 117 PUBLICATIONS OF STAFF .... 193 Index of Authors .. .... 213 THESES PRESENTED FOR DOCTOR'S DEGREES 210 Index of Authors 216 ----- I I ~.. LI MEMBERS OF THE CORPORATION 1932-1933 President Vice-President KARL TAYLOR COMPTON VANNEVAR BUSH Secretary* WALTER HUMPHREYS Treasurer Assistant Treasurer EVERETT MORSS HENRY ADAMS MORSS Life Members FRANCIS HENRY WILLIAMS FRANKLIN WARREN HOBBS ABBOTT LAWRENCE LOWELL WILLIAM HOWARD BOVEY ELIHU THOMSON WILLIAM ROBERT KALES CHARLES AUGUSTUS STONE HENRY ADAMS MORSS FRANCIS RUSSELL HART JOSEPH WRIGHT POWELL EVERETT MORSS FRANCIS WRIGHT FABYAN WILLIAM CAMERON FORBES JOHN EDWARD ALDRED ALBERT FARWELL BEMIS FRANK WILLIAM LOVEJOY EDWIN SIBLEY WEBSTER WALTER HUMPHREYS PIERRE SAMUEL DUPONT VICTOR MACOMBER CUTTER FRANK ARTHUR VANDERLIP ALBERT HENRY WIGGIN CHARLES HAYDEN JOHN RUSSELL MACOMBER CHARLES THOMAS MAIN ALFRED LEE Looms HARRY JOHAN CARLSON JOHN JEREMIAH PELLEY GERARD SWOPE HARLOW SHAPLEY ARTHUR DEHON LITTLE ALFRED PRITCHARD SLOAN, JR. Term Members Term expires June, 1933 Term expires June, g93.5 LAMMOT DUPONT GODFREY LOWELL CABOT WILLIAM STUART FORBES WILLIAM DAVID COOLIDGE FRANK BALDWIN JEWETT REDFIELD PROCTOR Term expires June, ,934 Term expires June, 1936 ALEXANDER MACOMBER FRANCIS JOHN CHESTERMAN CALVIN WINSOR RICE THOMAS CHARLES DESMOND MAURICE RooS SCHARFF HENRY ELWYNE WORCESTER Term expires June, 1937 MARTIN HERBERT EISENHART BRADLEY DEWEY JEROME CLARKE HUNSAKER Representative of the Commonwealth HIS EXCELLENCY, JOSEPH BUELL ELY, Governor HON. ARTHUR PRENTICE RUGG, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court DR. PAYSON SmTH, Commissioner of Education *Address correspondence to Massachusetts Institute of Technology. ··113llllr~-rrr~-rr~--·~-----, COMMITTEES OF THE CORPORATION FOR 1932-1933 Executive Committee KARL T. COMPTON Ex offc EVERETT MORSS o ELIHU THOMSON EDWIN S. WEBSTER FRANCIS R. HART CHARLES T. MAIN GERARD SWOPE Committee on Finance FRANCIS R. HART CHARLES HAYDEN EDWIN S. WEBSTER VICTOR M. CUTTER JOHN R. MACOMBER THE TREASURER, ex oicio Auditing Committee FRANKLIN W. HOBBS WILLIAM S. FORBES ALEXANDER MACOMBER 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 LAMMOT DUPONT JOHN J. PELLEY Department of MechanicalEngineering CALVIN W. RICE JOHN E. ALDRED REDFIELD PROCTOR WILLIAM R. KALES Departments of Mining and Metallurgy and Geology CHARLES HAYDEN THOMAS C. DESMOND CHARLES A. STONE Department of Architecture HARRY J. CARLSON A. FARWELL BEMIS A. LAWRENCE LOWELL THOMAS C. DESMOND VISITING COMMITTEES Department of Physics WILLIAM D. COOLIDGE ALFRED L. LoomsS FRANK A. VANDERLIP FRANK B. JEWETT HARLOW SHAPLEY Department of Electrical Engineering FRANK B. JEWETT W. CAMERON FORBES MAURICE R. SCHARFF WILLIAM H. BOVEY ALEXANDER MACOMBER Department of Hygiene HARRY J. CARLSON WILLIAM S. FORBES HENRY E. WORCESTER Department of Economics and Statistics FRANKLIN W. HOBBS FRANCIS W. FABYAN ALBERT H. WIGGIN CALVIN W. RICE Department of Business and Engineering Administration JOHN R. MACOMBER FRANCIS W. FABYAN ALFRED P. SLOAN, JR. VICTOR M. CUTTER FRANK W. LOVEJOY ALBERT H. WIGGIN Departments of English and Modern Languages W. CAMERON FORBES FRANCIS J. CHESTERMAN ARTHUR D. LITTLE PAYSON SMITH Department of Mathematics HARLOW SHAPLEY FRANCIS J. CHESTERMAN HENRY E. WORCESTER MARTINIH. EISENHART Departments of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering LAMMOT DUPONTI MARTIN H. EISENHART FRANK W. LOVEJOY BRADLEY DEWE Y ARTHUR D. LITTLE Department of Biology and Public Health MAURICE R. SCIIARFI REDFIELD PROCTOR HENRY E. WORCESTER FRANCIS H. WILLIAMS Department of Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering JOSEPH W. POWELL A. FARWELL BEMI&S CHARLES A. STONE HENRY A. MoRSS Department of Military Science and Tactics ALEXANDER MACOMBER BRADLEY DEWEY JEROME C. HUNSAKER WALTER HUMPHREYS I ~-- ' -- MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY Aeronautical Engineering JEROME C. HUNSAKER WILLIAM H. BOVEY HENRY A. MORss GODFREY L. CABOT Division of Industrial Coi6peration FRANK B. JEWETT WILLIAM D. COOLIDGE REDFIELD PROCTOR A. FARWELL BEMIS LAMMOT DUPONT ALFRED P. SLOAN, JR. Textiles FRANKLIN W. HOBBS BRADLEY DEWEY WALTER HUMPHREYS Humanics GODFREY L. CABOT PAYSON SMITH FRANCIS H. WILLIAMS I 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 several departments, various problems of the future, together with reports of other administrative officers with reference to the work of their offices. In view of the general financial situation, projects looking toward an expansion of the activities of the Institute have gen- erally been left in abeyance, and the year has been devoted primarily to the internal affairs of the institution with especial attention to the effectiveness and economy of operation. The main accomplishments of this program are summarized in the following report supplemented in greater detail by the indi- vidual reports of the various administrative officers. CHANGES IN PERSONNEL A review of the changes in personnel during the year shows serious losses in both the Corporation and Faculty. On the eighteenth of October, a year ago yesterday, the sudden and unexpected death of Dr. Stratton deprived this Corporation of its Chairman. Coming to the Institute in January 1923, he served as President until July 1930, when he was elected Chairman, a position which he held for only one year. A few days later, on October 26, occurred the death of Howard A. Carson, a graduate of the Institute in the Class of 1869. He was elected to the Corporation in November 1878, and for seventeen years prior to his death was senior member of that body. On March 14, 1932, the Institute lost through the death of George Eastman its greatest benefactor, who served as a Life Member of this body from October 1920. Mr. John R. Freeman, distinguished engineer, died after a i MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY very short illness on October 6, 1932. He was a graduate of the Institute in the Class of 1876, and had been a Life Member of the Corporation since 1893. His generous and stimulating in- terest in the Institute continued up to the last, for within less than a week of his death he had written a letter of helpful sug- gestions to Dean Bush and had, with Mrs. Freeman, attended the President's reception to the Faculty. In recognition of the distinguished services of these men to the Institute and to record the affectionate esteem in which they are held by their colleagues, appropriate resolutions on the deaths of Dr. Stratton, Mr. Eastman and Mr. Carson have been spread upon the records of the Corporation, and accounts of their lives and services to the Institute have appeared in Institute publications. It will be appropriate at this meeting to appoint a committee to prepare similar resolutions on the death of Mr. Freeman for adoption by the Corporation at its next