Volume 42. Number 2 BULLETIN OF THE Massachusetts Institute of Technology BOSTON REPORT OF THE PRESIDENT AND TREASURER PRESENTED AT THE DECEMBER MEETING OF THE CORPORATION JANUARY, i9o 7 TABLE OF CONTENTS. REPORT OF TEIE PRESIDENT• PAGE Changes in Corporation and Faculty .............. 9 Administrative Changes ................... ti The Relation of the Corporation to tile Government of the Institute, i2 Student Registration ...................... 14 The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching . 15 Development for the Future Educational Tendencies .... " ............ • , 18 Culture Studies in Technical Schools • . .......... 9_ 0 A Closer Contact with Industrial Interests ...... .. .... eI The Treasurer's Report 23 Reports of Departments ~ 24 REPORTS OF TE[E DEPARTMENTS. Civil Engineering and Sanitary Engineering ........... 2 7 Mechanical En,gineering and Applied Mechanics ........ 32 Mining Engineering and Metallurgy.. ............. 35 Architecture ......................... 39 Chcmistry and Chcmical Engineering ............. 4t Research Laboratory of Physical Chemistry ......... ~ . 46 Electrical Engineering .................... 48 Biology ........................... 53 Sanitary Research Laboratory and Sewage Experiment Station . 56 Physics ........................... 60 Geology .......................... 63 Naval Architecture • . , , • . • , ..... ° . , . 72 A Report on some European Schools of Naval Architecture • • • 77 Mathematics ........................ lO6 Drawing .... ~ ...................... Io8 Mechanic Arts ....................... to9 English ............................ i I I (3) CONTENTS History ........................... I ] z Economics ......................... I r4 Modern Languages ..................... t t4 REPORTS OF ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICERS. Report of the Secretary of the Faculty ............. I16 Report of the Dean ..................... x 19 Report of the Director of Physical Training .......... x22 Report of the Medical Adviser . ............. '. t 23 Report of the Librarian ................... I2"7 Report of the Registrar: Statistics . •.............. t35 SOCIETY OF ARTS .................... , ..... t53 TITLES OF PAPERS PUBLISHED BY MEMBERS OF THE INSTRUCTING STAFF. Civil Engineering ............ -.......... I56 Mechanical Engineering .................. 157 Mining Engineering and Metallurgy .............. I57 Chemistry and Chemical Engineering ............. 158 Research Laboratory of Physical Chemistry ........... 16o Electrical Engineering .................... 16 l Biology ........................... i 62 Physics ........... •................ 165 Geology .......................... t 65 Mathematics ........................ x66 English ........................... 166 Economics ......................... I67 Modern Languages ..................... t67 REPORT OF THE TREASURER embere of tl ¢ ¢orpomtton. President. Secretary. HENRY S. PRITCHETT. FRANCIS H. WILLIAMS. Treasure/. GEORGE WIGGLESWORTH. Life Members. WILLIAM ENDICOTT. A. LAWRENCE ROTCH. HOWARD A. CARSON. JOHN R. FREEMAN. CHARLES J. PAINE. WILLIAM tI. LINCOLN. CItARLES FAIRCHILD. J. B. SEWALL. DAVID R. WHITNEY. CHARLES L. LOVERING. ALEXANDER S. WHEELER. A. LAWRENCE LOWELL. JAMES P. TOLMAN. JAMES P. MUNROE. HOWARD STOCKTON. WILLIAM L. PUTNAM. NATHANIEL THAYER. EBEN S. DRAPER. CHARLES F. CHOATE. ROBERT S. PEABODY. HIRAM F. MILLS. ELIHU THOMSON. PERCIVAL LOWELL. ELLIOT C. LEE. CHARLES C." JACKSON. JAMES P. STEARNS. SAMUEL M. FELTON. LUCIUS TUTTLE. DESMOND FITZGERALD. FREDERICK P. FISH. FRANCIS BLAKE. FRANCIS L. HIGGINSON. CHARLES W. HUBBARD. CHARLES A. STONE. THOMAS L. LIVERMORE. W. MURRAY CRANE. Term Members. Term expires March, i9o 9. Term expires March, t9Io. FREDERICK H. NEWELL. FREDERICK K. COPELAND. RICHARD H. SOULE. JOSEPH P. GRAY. EBEN S. STEVENS. FRANK L. LOCKE. Tern; expires March, I9t x. THOMAS C. DU PONT CHARLES T. MAIN. FREDERICK W. WOOD. On the Part of the Commonwealth. HIs EXCELLENCY, CURTIS GUILD, JR., Governor. HoN. MARCUS P. KNOWLTON, Chie] Justice o] the Supreme Court HON. GEORGE H~ MARTIN, Secretary o] the Board o] Education. MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY. commttte¢e of tl ¢ Corporatton. Executive Committee. HENRY S. PRITCHETT. | GEORGE WIGGLESWORTH. I Ex O/[icto. FREDERICK W. WOOD. THOMAS L. LIVERMORE. FRANCIS H, WILLIAMS. CHARLES A. STONE. 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. HIRAM F. MILLS, ROBERT S, PEABODY. Auditing Committee. CHARLES C. JACKSON. JAMES P. TOLMAN WILLIAM L. PUTNAM. Committee on Nominations. DAVID R. WHITNEY. JAMES P. MUNROE. HOWARD A. CARSON. CHARLES C. JACKSON. FRANCIS H. WILLIAMS. CHARLES W. HUBBARD. Trustees of the Museum of Fine Arts. HENRY S. PRITCHETT. A. LAWRENCE ROTCH. FRANCIS BLAKE. .. VISITING COMMITTEES. VISITING COMMITTEES. Department of Civil Engineering. HOWARD A. CARSON. JOHN R. FREEMAN. CHARLES F. CHOATE. LUCIUS TUTTLE. DESMOND FITZGERALD. FREDERICK H. NEWELL JOSEPH P. GRAY. Departments of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics. HIRAM F. MILLS. EBEN S. DRAPER. FRANCIS BLAKE. ELLIOT C. LEE. JAMES I'. TOI,MAN. RICHARD H. SOULE. FREDERICK K. COPELAND. Departments of Mining and Geology. THOMAS L. LIVERMORE. CHARLES L. LOVER1NG. CHARLES FAIRCHILD. JAMES P. STEARNS. JAMES P. TOLMAN. THOMAS C. DU PONT. FREDERICK W. WOOD. Department of Architecture. ROBERT S. PEABODY. ALEXANDER S. WHEELER A. LAWRENCE ROTCH. FRANCIS Lo HIGGINSON. JOHN R. FREEMAN, Department of Physics. A. LAWRENCE ROTCH. CIIARLES W. HUBBARD. FRANCIS BLAKE. ELIHU THOMSON. Department of Electrical Engineering. ELIHU THOMSON. CHARLES A. STONE. FRANCIS BLAKE. PERCIVAL LOWELL. FREDERICK P. FISH. CHARLES T. MAIN. Departments of Literature, History, and Political Economy. GEORGE rI. MARTIN. JAMES P. MUNROE. A. LAWRENCE LOWELL. J.B. SEWALL. CHARLES L. LOVER1NG. Departments of Modern Languages and English. JAMES P. MUNROE, J.B. SEWALL. FRANK L. LOCKE. Department of Mathematics. PERCIVAL LOWELL. WILLIAM L. PUTNAM. tlOWARD STOCKTON. CHARLES F. CHOATE. Departments of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering. HIRAM F. MILLS. CHARLES W. HUBBARD. ELIHU THOMSON. W. MURRAY CRANE. ELLIOT C. LEE. EBEN S. STEVENS. Department of Biology. OHN R. FREEMAN. GEORGE H. MARTIN. RANCIS BLAKE. FRANCIS H. WILLIAMS. Department of Naval Architecture. CHARLES J. PAIN'E. HOWARD STOCKTON. WILLIAM H. LINCOLN I iiI • ep0rt of tbc re t ent. TO THE MEMBERS OF THE CORPORATION: The Report which I present to you to-day is the seventh annual Report which I have addressed to you. One year ago I presented to this body my resignation as President of the Institute, in order to undertake a work which, as it seemed to me," has the prospect of being far-reaching in its effects on American education. At that time nothing was ft/rther from my thought than that I should stand before you to-day as youi" President. This arrangement has been continued at the wish of the Executive Committee in order that certain problems should be advanced a little nearer completion, and in order that full time might be taken for the selection of a successor. The Executive Committee hopes to present to you, within a very brief pel'iodl a President of the Institute in my place; and that which I say now must therefore be said in the capacity of one who lays down the work rather than in the capacity of one who expects to carry it on. CHANOBS IN CORPORATION AND FACULTY. J During the past year there has been a number of changes in the Corporation of the Institute. We have 16st by death Charles Merdam and Samuel Cabot, the latter called away in the midst of health and comparative youth. By resignation we have lost George A. Gardner and Thornton K. Lothrop, two men who have served the Massachusetts Institute of TeCh- nology long and well. IO MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY. This year has marked the beginning Of a new policy; that is, the election of members of the Alumni as term members. The following nine men have been by this means added to the Cor- poration: Frederick iI. Newell, Richard H. Soule, Eben S. Stevens, for three years; Frcderick K. Copeland, Joseph P. Gray, Frank L. Locke, for four years; Thomas C. du Pont, Charles T. Mainl Frederick W. Wood, for five years." In the Executive Committee there have been two resignations, those of Mr. A. Lawrence Lowell and of Mr. Howard Stockton. In the place of Mr. A. Lawrence Lowell, Mr. Charles A. Stone has been elected. The vacancy left by Mr. Howard Stock- ton remains yet to be filled, x In the Faculty there have been the following changes: As- sociate Professor William L. Puffer in Electrical Engineering has resigned. The following associate professors have been appointed full professors: William O. Crosby, Frederick S. Woods, and Harry M. Goodwin. The following assistant professors have been appointed associate professors: Augustus H. Gill, Arthur G. Robbins, Frank A. Laws, Charles E. Fuller, William A. Johnston, Charles F. Park, and Frank P. McKibben. The following instructors have been appointed assistant pro- fessors: Nathan R. George, Archer T. Robinson, Charles E. Locke. Two new appointments have been made of more than usual significance. The first is that of Professor Dugald C. Jackson to be Professor of Electrical Engineering and head of the Elec- trical Engineering Department. Professor Jackson comes to us from the University of Wisconsin, where he occupied a similar place and where he has built up the very successful school of electrical engineerin.g which now exists