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...personal inspection, for a manufacturer answering a letter of inquiry would be sure to fall into one or more of the fatal errors enumerated above. The proper method of constructing a schedule is to show the wages paid to each employee through a period of years, but here the statistician is confronted with serious problems. The number of people employed is always difficult to find; and even when that is done he may be unable to compute the duration of the labor because the time varies with different industries, and in different departments of the same industry...
...also perplexing on account of the great variety in the grades of labor employed. The railroad managers in giving out their figures have been accustomed to throwing all the grades about a thousand in number, into five classes and giving the average for each class. Henry C. Adams, Statistician of the Interstate Commerce Commission, is working toward dividing their scale of wages far more accurately into a large number of classes. But even here the inherent difficulties of the problem are increased by the innovation of paying employees "by the run" instead of by the time...
...Carroll D. Wright begins his course of lectures on the Statistics of Wages. Mr. Wright, who was for many years at the head of the Massachusetts Bureau of Labor Statistics, is now chief of the Department of Labor at Washington, and has an international reputation as a statistician and as a writer on social subjects. His lectures, which will continue through this week, will consider not only questions of method and scope in statistics, but also the history of wages as indicated by statistics, especially during the last fifty years. They will thus bear on the great social questions...
...senior class met in Alumni Hall on Tuesday evening and elected the officers and committees who will have charge of the commencement exercises next June. The following men were elected: Poet, Munger; secretary, Sumner; orator, Studinski; statistician, Parker; ivy committee, Hemenway, Thomas, Hamilton; triennial committee, Kerr, Darrach, Maddox; cup committee, Judd, Russell, Lapham; historians, DeCamp, Day, Clark, Lilney, Gerard; supper committee, Hull, Brookfielor, Harkness, Lapham, Babcock; class day committee, Sage, Brooke, Hinkey, Heffelfinger, Garrison...
...Statistician-E. A. Baldwin and M. O. Leighton...