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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...properly qualified them. Captains, managers and players on the various athletic teams were called into conference and suggestions from members of the Faculty were invited. A study of the report shows clearly that the statistics compiled are interpreted with caution, and that it is possible to obtain a reliable index of the general trend by means of statistical research. For example, there has been much loose talk about the relation between athletics and scholarship. The report now published settle this question for all unbiased minds. It has particularly brought into relief two facts: that participants in athletics are only slightly...
...reviewing the course itself, however, the tutorial schools perform a commendable service. All too few of the instructors at Harvard attempt formally to convey to the student a view of their subject as a whole. The course without its seminar is as incomplete as the book without an index...
...committee now issues three publications. A Monthly Review appears with an index of business conditions in the United States and Europe, supplemented by occasional studies on economic problems of current interest. Advance Letters, coming out at the beginning and middle of each month, give the earliest possible notice of the movements of the forecaster. Every effort is made to bring these letters up to date, a novel form being employed by which it is possible to prepare the chart for printing within a few hours. The third publication is a Supplement, issued several times a year, which presents reports...
...methods used in the construction of the Index of Business Conditions are new. The Index has as an object to set forth, first, the conditions in individual industries; second, the general business situation; and third, the probable business developments in the immediate future. Before definite conclusions are drawn from statistical date, underlying economic conditions are investigated by analyzing the conditions surrounding the industries or institutions used as sources of data, by studying the functions of such industries in our business organization, and by determining the reliability of the data. Variations due to gradual growth or "secular trend" and to seasonal...
...first Index, constructed for the period of 1903-1914, predicted all the major movements of industry from eight to twelve months in advance of their occurrence. The current Index began in November, 1918, and appears to be running true to pre-war form. Since the Armistice it has correctly forstold wholesale commodity price fluctuations and general business activity, in spite of the unsettled conditions which have prevailed