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Edwin F. Gay, dean of the Graduate School of Business Administration since 1908, has been appointed a member of the War Trade Board by President Wilson. Dean Gay became a member of the Commercial Economy Board of the Council of National Defence early last spring, on which he has been serving up to the present time. It was only recently that this work forced him to abandon his office as head of the Business School, which position he will probably resume at the close of the war...
...capacity as a member of the Shipping Board, Dean Gay devoted the greater part of his time to the study of tonnage problems, and it is as a representative of this Board that he was made a member of the War Trade Board. He will give his attention particularly to the consideration of import questions concerning the allocation and conservation of ships. Dean Gay's previous experience in this field qualifies him as one of the country's authorities on this subject...
...second professor to be appointed to an economic board in Washington, the other being Professor F. W. Taussig '79, who is now serving as chairman of the Federal Tariff Commission. Mr. L. F. Schaub was appointed dean of the Business School until the end of the war or until Dean Gay's return from Washington...
...striven to broaden our methods of admission as far as possible without lowering the standard. In this we have been partially successful, but, no doubt, not perfectly so; and we hope to learn to do better by experience, constant effort and openness of mind. It is well that the war should direct increased attention to these questions, should provoke us to take our bearings afresh, and consider our courses anew; but the conditions brought about by our entering the conflict are not the best cause the conditions are abnormal and the results obtained by trying something new are not certainly...
...suggestion has been made that in war time when colleges are reduced in size, less attention to the qualification of applicants for admission might be given, with a rigid elimination later of those who cannot keep the pace, or who do not prove capable of doing the work well. That sounds reasonable, but anyone, who is in the habit of conducting a class knows that the pace depends upon the students as well as the instructor, and that to add to a class even a small proportion of men less competent than the rest inevitably slows the pace...