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...conversion, or by a long process of education." Just as a thermometer does not regulate but only indicates the temperature of a room, the amount of heat depending upon having plenty of coal in the basement and upon the "attitude of the janitor," so the work of the statistician does not regulate but only indicates existing business conditions...
...April, 1921. The action of the Federal Reserve Banks in increasing rates and restricting credit practically insured a business readjustment unaccompanied by a financial panic. For "higher interest rates do not spell disaster, but safety, provided they are applied in time." In the opinion or Professor W. M. Persons, statistician of the committee, if we had the old banking system which existed prior to 1914, the present crisis would very likely have seen expansion to the bursting point. In regard to the Boston banking trouble, Professor Persons stated, "I believe that the failures of the trust companies were purely local...
Professor J. A. Hourwich, now statistician of the soviet Embassy, Washington will speak on April 28 on "The Economic Situation in Russia." Professor Hourwich has been in the service of the United States government holding position with Bureau of the Mint, the Bureau of the Census and the New York Public Service Commission. He is the author of various books on Russia and "Immigration and Labor...
...public school graduates stand higher scholastically at Harvard than private school men? That the former are head and shoulders above the latter in acquiring academic honors is indisputably shown by statistics published in the December Graduates' Magazine. But the statistician went no further. He merely shrugged his shoulders, said "Judge for yourself," and left the private schools to rest on their laurels. Whereupon Professor Dallas Lore Sharp and the editorial columns of numerous papers proceeded to pass sentence of death upon our endowed secondary institutions...
...best mysterious. Does the Fire Department fear that two such gathering will result in a combustible effect? Or does the Fire Chief consider that the left-over warmth of one evening will mean no less than sheer conflagration the next? Frankly, we are puzzled. Perhaps the Department's statistician has slightly miscalculated the average life of an undergraduate cigarette...