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Though the present enrolment of the Institute of Technology is about ten per cent smaller than a year ago, never have so many men been using the college buildings. Counting the 1670 registered as Tech. students and the many others enrolled in the various war schools, more then 3000 men are taking advantage of the Institute's opportunity...
...always report at the beginning of the term. There are a few Americans who are taking advanced work in chemistry or aeronautics, and quite an accession from foreign countries, Japan being represented by three or four mature men who are interested largely in mining. A dozen years ago Japan was studying Naval Architecture at Tech.; today it is towards the development of its mineral resources that it bends its efforts...
...time for mob enthusiasm has long been past; and the organizers of this meeting are well aware of it. The time for sitting down and working on national problems is with us at this hour. The war with Germany is a grave problem. It was thought three years ago that the Allies could defeat Germany by starving her or through some other ingenious means. The thinking men now know that the Teuton is to be whipped only in a thoroughly military way, and the United States must contribute her share, and it shall be a great one, to that military...
...however, will be paid on and after September 24. After deducting from the profits certain amounts for the reserves there remained available for dividends at the main store $16,894.13 and at the Technology branch $5,928.51, a total of $22,822.64. The amount so available a year ago was $15,202.84. Last year a dividend at the rate of nine per cent, on all cash sales and seven per cent, on all credit sales was paid to members and the net earnings of the Society would permit the payment of dividends at the same rate this autumn. In view...
...guide the human machine intelligently, we must study the various parts of the machine and then its activities as expressed in feeling, thinking acting. At present the best opportunities for this line of investigation exist in the medical schools. Over a century ago a great Frenchman declared that medicine should be the basis for all public instruction. It is possible for the medical schools to give modified courses to students of social phenomena...