Word: data
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...significant story of a brilliant college graduate who was offered a position involving statistical work in a large plant. Once at work, "Dean, the graduate in question, showed a flash of real brilliancy in analyzing the operations of two departments. The unfortunate factor was that in getting his data Dean antagonized every man he met. His sense of 'superiority,' his inability to handle other men or to mix with them, his continual complaints, oral and written, to his immediate superior and to the head of the business; all made him about as popular as a thunder storm at a picnic...
Only 132 out of a total of 513 Freshmen who were given physical examinations this fall were found to be users of tobacco in any form. The ages at which these smokers started using the noxious weed also revealed interesting data. One man puffed a cigarette for the first time when he was but nine, while at the other extreme one man attempted smoking at the age of twenty-five. However of the 105 who answered this query, 86 started the practice between the ages...
...purpose of the Dunster House Bookshop in offering this lecture is to make a step towards giving members of the University an opportunity to hear prominent men talk on such subjects as are not usually touched on by lecturers coming to Cambridge,--on subjects about which data and information are slim...
...prepare for him periodic reports on the war activities of the Government. From the opening of this work Dean Gay had it in charge as Director. Secondary duties of the Central Bureau were the correlation of statistical work of all government units, together with collection and dispatch of economic data required by the American delegates at the Peace Conference...
...been announced by the Harvard Alumni Association that a new edition of the Alumni Directory will be published next fall. Preparations are now under way to collect data from all graduates of the University for this volume. The new edition will contain in alphabetical, but not geographical, order the names of all the 38,000 living Harvard men or former students at the University, both degree-holders and non-degree holders, together with their addresses and occupations where known. It will also give their years of enrollment at the University and whatever degrees they may have. The dates of degrees...