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...following article is reprinted from the Harvard Engineering School Supplement of the current Alumni Bulletin...
...electricity. Comparison is made between our water power resources and our coal deposits, and it shows that there is enough coal used yearly to build a Chinese Wall entirely around the United States. Animated drawings demonstrate the operation of a steam turbine and the generation of alternating current. The story ends with the construction of a modern electric power plant and a glance into the future of the electric power industry...
Regardless of whom the instructor may be, the subject matter of the course dealing with strikes, governmental control of labor policies, arbitration, unemployment, and other problems closely associated with the labor question should prove valuable to all who have any interest in current problems. For those who think courses in Economics too theoretical, Economics 6a is an excellent corrective, for throughout the half year, one is constantly finding instances in the daily newspapers with which the week's work is directly concerned. For those concentrating in labor problems, the course is indispensable, since it takes in a wide field which...
...little Conserve-a-tive, can afford to be ignorant of the social ferment which goes on in the world around him, and theatens to involve him as employer or employee, taxlevyer or taxpayer in our time. This course will not introduce him to the manifestations of these doctrines now current in Harbin or in Gastonia, but it will enable him to learn something of the ideas held by anarchists, social...
...purpose of the Foundation since its inception seven years ago has been to advance funds at the current investment rate to deserving but needy students. The sum of a half million dollars has already been awarded, with character as the sole collateral, and the results have been so gratifying that the administrators of the fund are well justified in stating that the practice has changed from pure philanthropy into a sound investment for banking institutions...