Word: statisticians
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...exponent of strenuous life in the open. During and after the war he served as chairman of the Australian Repatriation Commission, which was signally successful in its work of restoring captured Australian soldiers and sailors to their country. He also became famous for his work as a war statistician...
Parke H. Davis '93, the famous historian and statistician of football, on Saturday evening after watching Princeton "leave old Eli trailing in the dust," remarked: "Don't get the idea into your head that Princeton defeated Yale today because the Blue team was weak. I have been watching Yale teams for 32 years, and the 1920 Eli eleven is one of the strongest that I have ever seen Princeton piled up 20 points against its opponents because it played super-football." --Daily Princetonian...
...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...