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Massachusetts Institute of Technology MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY ANNUAL REPORT OF THE PRESIDENT AND TREASURER DECEMBER 9, I9o3 BOSTON GI~o. H. ELLIS C()., PRINTERS, z7~ CONGRESS STREET ~9o4 % CONTENTS. PAGE PART I. REPORT OF TItE PRESIDENT. ~' General Policy of the Institute ............. 9 Legacies and Gifts of the Year ............. II The YeaI'~ Changes .............. ." " ' *3 Grant of Land by the Legislature ............ t3 I5 . New Buildings ................... i5 Research Work in the Institute ............. Place of Research in National Development ......... 17 Need of a Pension System ............. ~9 Lowell Institute School for Industrial Foremen ...... 2o 2i Summer School ........... 22 Administration ................... 23 Reports of Departments .............. PART II. REPORTS OF DEPARTMENTS. Report of the Dean ......... Professor Burton • 27 Report of the Medical Adviser .... Doctor White . • 33 School of Engineering Research ..... Professor Sedgwick 36 Civil Engineering and Sanitary Engineering • Professor Swain 38 Mechanical Engineering ........ Professor Lanza , 42 Mining Engineering and Metallurgy .... Professor Richards 44 Professor Chandler 46 Architecture ............ Chemistry and Chemical Engineering • . Professor Talbot 47 Research Laboratory of Physical Chemistry , Professor Noyes 5~ Electrical Engineering ........ Professor Duncan . 52 .... Professor Sedgwick 54 Biology ......... Professor Cross 58 Physics ............ Professor Crosby . 64 Geology ............. Naval Architecture ......... Professor Peabody. 66 Mathematics ............ Professor Tyler . • 69 Professor Rambeau 7 ° Modern Language .......... Professor Dewey • 72 Economics ............ Professor Bates . 74 English ............. Professor Currier • 74 History ............. Mechanic Arts .... • " Professor Schwamb 76 Libraries ...... : : : : : " " Doctor Bigelow 78 Society of Arts .......... Professor Norris 8I PART I]~I, TITLES OF PAPERS PUBLIStlED BY ~,[EMBERS OF TIlE IN- STRUCTING STAFF. Chemistry and Chemical Engineering and Research Laboratory of Physical Chemistry • • • . 41 titles 87 • • " .... 31 " 90 Biology ........... 12 " 93 Geok~gy ................. ,, Mechanical Engineering ............ 9 94 Mining Engineering and ~,letallurgy ...... 8 " 95 Physics ................ 6 " 95 6 " 90 Modem Languages .... i i i i i ~ ~ '. ~ 4 " 96 Astronomy ....... ,, ivil and Sanitary Engineering ......... 4 97 Electrical Engineering ......... 4 " 97 Mathematics • • . ....... 3 " 97 Economics ................ 3 " 98 PART IV. STATISTICS~ REGISTRAR'S REPORT ......... I,OI PART V. TREASURER'S REPORT. embev of tl}e Corporation, President. Secretary." HENRY S. PRITCHETT. FRANCIS H. WILLIAMS. Treasurer. GEORGE WIGGLES'WORTH. WILLIAM ENDICOTT. THOMAS L. LIVERMORE. HOWARD A. CARSON. A. LAWRENCE ROTCH. CHARLES J. PAINE. JOHN R. FREEMAN. CHARLES FAIRCHILD. GEORGE A. GARDNER. DAVID R. WHITNEY. WILLIAM H. LINCOLN. ALEXANDER S. WHEELER. J. B. SEWALL, JAMES P. TOLMAN. CHARLES L. LOVERING. I-I OWAR D STOCKTON. A. LAWRENCE LOWELL. NATHANIEL THAYER. JAMES P. MUNROE. CHARLES F, CHOATE. WILLIAM L. PUTNAM. HIRAM F. MILLS. CHARLES G. WELD. PERCIVAL LOWELL. EBEN S. DRAPER. CHARLES MERRIAM. ROBERT S. PEABODY. THORNTON K. LOTHROP. ELIHU THOMSON. CHARLES C, JACKSON. ELLIOT C. LEE, SAMUEL M, FELTON. JAMES P. STEARNS. DESMOND FITZGERALD. LUCIUS TUTTLE. SAMUEL CABOT. FREDERICK P. FISH. FRANCIS BLAKE. FRANCIS L. HIGGINSON, CHARLES W. HUBBARD. CHARLES A, STONE. W. MURRAY CRANE. On the Part of the Commonwealth, HIs EXCELLIgNCY, JOHN L. BATES, Goverzor. HON. MARCUS P. KNOWLTON, CMef fuslice of Nze ~cuflreme Court. , Secretary ¢f the ~'oard of Educatio~z, z Correspandenceshould be addressed to Dr. tt. ~V. Tyler, Secretary of the Faculty. ~ommittec~ of t~¢ ¢o~poration. Executive Committee. HENRY S. PRITCHETT. } Ex OJidis. GEORGE WIGGLESWORTH. HOWARD STOCKTON. THOMAS L. LIVERMORE. FRANCIS H. WILLIAMS. A. LAWRENCE LOWELL. FREDERICK P. FISH. Finance Committee. WILLIAM ENDICOTT. NATHANIEL THAYER. DAVID R. WHITNEY. CHARLES F. CHOATE. CHARLES C, JACKSON. JAMES P, STEARNS. Committee on the Society of Arts. HOWARD A. CARSON. GEORGE A. GARDNER. HIRAM F. MILLS. Auditing Committee. CHARLES C. JACKSON. JAMES P. TOLMAN. WILLIAM L, PUTNAM, Committee on Nominations. THORNTON K. LOTHROP. GEORGE A. GARDNER. DAVID R. WHITNEY. HOWARD A. CARSON. FRANCIS H. WILLIAMS. Trustees of the Museum of Fine Arts. HENRY S. PRITCHETT. A. LAWRENCE ROTCH. FRANCIS BLAKE. ~i~itin~ ~ommitte¢~. Department of Civil Engineering. HOWARD A. CARSON. DESMOND FITZGERALD. CHARLES F, CHOATE. JOHN R, FREEMAN, LUCIUS TUTTLE. Departments of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics. HIRAM F, MILLS. JAMES P. TOLMAN. FRANCIS BLAKE. EBEN S, DRAPER. ELLIOT C. LEE. Departments of Mining and Geology. THOMAS L. LIVERMORE. JAMES P. TOLMAN. CHARLES FAIRCHILD. CHARLES L, LOVERING. ]AMES P, STEARNS. Department of Architecture. RO'BERT S. PEABOI)Y. ALEXANDER S. W'HEELI':R. A, LAWRENCE ROTCH, FRANCIS L, HIGGINSON. JOHN R. FREEMAN. Department of Physics. FRANCIS BLAKE. A, LAWRENCE ROTCH, CHARLES }V. HUBBARD. ELIHU THOMSON. Department of Electrical Engineering, ELIHU THOMSON. FREDERICK P. FISH. FRANCIS BLAKE. CHARLES A, STONE, PERCIVAL LOWELL. Departments of Literature, History, and Political Economy. CHARLES C. JACKSON. J.B. SE\VALL, A. LAWRENCE LOWELL. CHARLES L. LOVERING, JAMES P. MUNROE. JAMES P. TOLMAN. Department of Modern Languages and English. JAMES P. MUNROE. SAMUEL CABOT. CHARLES C. JACKSON. J. B, SEWALL. Department of Mathematics. PERCIVAL LOWELL. WILLIAM L. PUTNAM. HOWARD STOCKTON, CHARLES F, CHOATE. Departments of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering. SAMUEL CABOT. ELLIOT C. LEE. HIRAM F. MILLS, CHARLES W. HUBBARD. ELIHU THOMSON, W. MURRAY CRANE. Department of Biology, JOHN R. FREEMAN. CHARLES G. WELD. FRANCIS BLAKE. FRANCIS H. WILLIAMS. Department of Naval Architecture. CHARLES J. PAINE. WILLIAM H. LINCOLN. HOWARD STOCKTON. CHARLES G. WELD. PA RT I. REPORT-OF THE PRESIDENT. L TO THE MEMBERS OF THE CORPORATION OF THE IV~ASSA- CHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY :-- The reports of the administrative officers, which I have the honor to present at this time, refer to the school-year begin- ning October I, I9o2, and ending September 29, i9o3 . For your convenience, and for greater clearness, the printed state- ment has been divided into five parts, as follows: Report of the President ; II. Reports of the Dean and heads of Departments ; III, List of publications by members of the Instructing Staff during the year; IV. Statistics and Report of the Registrar; V. Report of the Treasurer. GENERAL POLICY OF THE INSTITUTE. This is the fourth annual report that I have had the pleasure to address to your body. During the three years that have elapsed since my first report, marked changes have come about in the Institute, and in the conduct of its work. In this in- terval, the student bo@ has grown from about twelve hundred to approximately sixteen hundred ; and, although the increase in tuition which took effect at the beginning of the present year (I9o3-o4) has brought about a small decrease in tile en- tering class, the large increase in prelilainary examinations for next year indicates that there has been no real break in the growth of numbers. During these three years I have endeavored, in co-operation with the Executive Committee and the Faculty, to proceed along three general lines of progress. First of all, the effort has been made to improve the means of instruction; to discuss with the members of the Faculty, IO REPORT OF THE PRESIDENT not only questions of detail, but the fundamental ques- tions of the education which the Institute is to offer. The effort has been made to keep the old spirit of work and of energy, but to adapt as fast as may, be the machinery of in- struction to present day needs. This effort has resulted prac- tically in a reorganization of executive officers, and in addi- tions and changes in the Instructing Staff anti modifications of the' Courses. A second consistent policy of procedure to which the E> ecutive Committee has committed itself, with your endorse- ment, has been the effort to improve the facilities of instruc- tion and to make them the best possible. The creation of the Department of Electrical Engineering and the erection of its splendid new laboratories, the new building which houses the Department of Naval Architecture and the laboratory of chemical research, the establishment of a Graduate School of Engineering Research, all mark steps taken, not by reason of additionaI endowment, but without it, and in the faith that the Institute of Technology must occupy a foremost place in technical education. A third effort, and one vitally connected with the wish to bring to the Institute new men and to improve its facilities, has been the effort to increase the income. Our income has grown in three years from $347,'32 in 19oo to $436,8o8 in I9O3, an increase of nearly ninety thousand dollars, equivaIent to the interest on something like two and a quarter millions of dollars. This income has come almost entirely from the growth in student fees due to the increased number of students. Our expenses in the meantime have grown faster than our income, so that the deficit of the last year is larger than for some years past, and serves to emphasize the fact that in technical education increase of expense keeps pace with increase in numbers; and that such education, in the best sense, can be kept up permanently only by a generous grant from the State, or by a correspondingly large income from private endowmentl Where the Institute of Technology
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