Word: mr
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...subject of Mr. Gilbreth's lecture, "Motion Study as Applied to Industry," as announced for this evening in the calendar, is a new and rather unfamiliar one it may be well to explain it a little...
...which the time of artisans about their usual work is actually spent. The object is of course to find ways to eliminate such waste of time as is observed, and the results already obtained are very striking and suggestive, and they bid fair to be far-reaching in importance. Mr. Gilbreth will speak from the point of view of a large employer, thus endeavoring to increase the efficiency of his men. The subject is one meriting the attention of anyone interested in efficiency either on his own part or on the part of his subordinates, present or prospective...
...Mr. Frank B. Gilbreth, a general contractor of New York City, will deliver an illustrated lecture on "Motion Study as Applied in Industry" in Pierce 110 this evening at 8 o'clock. The lecture will be under the auspices of the Engineering Society...
...Mr. Gilbreth is one of the few contractors who issue contracts on the basis of the cost plus a fixed sum. He is the author of several books on construction problems, and was the contractor of Dr. Sargent's gymnasium, the Cambridge Electric Power-house and many buildings in Boston and New York, as well as on the Pacific Coast. Mr. Gilbreth has done much to put contracting on a higher standard in this country...
...tenth annual conference of the Association of American Universities is now in progress at Cornell University, Ithaca, New York. President Eliot and Mr. Joseph Warren '97, assistant secretary to the Corporation, are the Harvard delegates. President Eliot will not present a paper before the conference, but he will take part in the discussion following the reading of contributed articles...