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use of labor and farm equipment ; farm finance, 

 including methods of financing, insurance and 

 taxation; farm labor, including supply and 

 movement, trend of population, living and 

 housing problems, creating new productive 

 enterprises for farm labor and standards of 

 supervision and compensation for farm labor; 

 agricultural history and geography, including 

 trend of agricultural development, shifts of 

 agricultural production, relation of American 

 to foreign agriculture and supervision of the 

 Atlas of Agriculture; land utilization, includ- 

 ing land resources and utilization, land settle- 

 ment and land ownership and tenancy; farm 

 life studies, including cooperation and trend of 

 cooperative movements as affecting the farm- 

 er's life and activities on the farm, agricultural 

 relations to other industries, agriculture for 

 industrial workers, conditions of farm life as 

 affecting national welfare; extension work, in- 

 cluding publications and illustrative material, 

 farm management demonstrations, farm labor 

 supply and other farm economics demonstra- 

 tions. 



CORPORATION CHEMISTRY 



The Newark Technical School has been ele- 

 vated to the rank of a collegiate institution 

 and the recently appointed director, D. E. 

 Hodgdon, has made plans for special courses 

 in theoretical and industrial chemistry. This 

 has been recognized as a very desirable step 

 because of the predominance of chemical cor- 

 iwrations and chemical industry in the state 

 of New Jersey. 



The director announces that Frederic Dan- 

 nerth, has consented to deliver a course of 

 thirty lectures on corporation chemistry during 

 the coming college year. Dr. Dannerth is 

 well known as advisory chemist to many of 

 the leading corporations in the coimtry. He 

 was one of the first to conceive the idea of a 

 system of laboratory management, and is the 

 inventor of numerous processes for industrial 

 works using rubber, resins, oils and plastics. 



This new course is probably the first of 

 its kind offered to students of chemistry in 

 America and is a direct outcome of the chem- 

 ical development in the country during the 

 past five years. The aim will be to show the 



application of the principles of industrial 

 chemistry to the problems of manufacturing 

 corporations — ^b6th those which are now in 

 operation and those which are contemplated 

 by investors and banking corporations. The 

 lectures and seminars will be conducted in 

 such a manner as to be intelligible to heads 

 of the departments for purchasing, manirfac- 

 turing and selling, as well as by fourth-year 

 men in chemistry. The course will cover : (1) 

 a study of industrial surveys conducted by 

 chemists for the purirose of developing sources 

 of supply for raw materials (this includes 

 animal, plant and mineral materials). (2) 

 Surveys of the executive departments of pur- 

 chasing, manufacturing and selling. (3) Sur- 

 veys of the advisory departments of engineer- 

 ing, law and research. (4) Laboratory Man- 

 agement (design, equipment, organization and 

 administration). (5) The Economic Office 

 (organization of the information files, museum 

 of materials and products, as well as the 

 library). The purpose of the course is to 

 prepare graduates in chemistry for the hard, 

 practical problems which confront them when 

 they take up industrial work and at the same 

 time an opportunity will be afforded persons 

 now in executive positions to study the trans- 

 lation of scientific knowledge into industrial 

 development. 



MEMORIAL PROFESSORSHIP TO DR. JAMES 

 JACKSON PUTNAM, 1846-1918 



It is hoped that there majy be an endowment 

 of the professorship of diseases of the nervous 

 system in the Harvard Medical School in 

 memory of Dr. James Jackson Putnam. 



In the development of this increasingly im- 

 portant branch of medicine, Dr. Putnam was 

 a pioneer in Boston and in the country at 

 large, while he was widely recognized in Eu- 

 rope as a neurologist of distinction. He in- 

 augurated the neurological clinic at the Massa- 

 chusetts General Hospital in 1872, and through 

 forty years of service was devoted to its inter- 

 ests, and to teaching in the Harvard Medical 

 School. In 1893 he was appointed the first 

 professor of diseases of the nervous system; 

 the professorship was then, and has remained, 

 without endowment. 



