This transcription has been completed. Contact us with corrections.
THE TECHNOLOGY REVIEW Edited at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Volume XXXII Number 8 Contents for July, 1930 BUBBLE TOWER Frontispiece 426 Steel Tracery at an Oil Refinery TIME By L. Magruder Passano 427 What Is It?-The Problem of All Times PRINTS-THEIR USES AND ABUSES By Charles D. Childs 430 The Object of Collecting Should Be the Cultivation of Understanding DYNAMIC LOADS By Earle Buckingham 434 Recent Experiments Suggest a New Factor in the Design of Gears and Other Moving Mechanical Parts INAUGURATION OF DR. COMPTON 436 Induction of the Institute's New President on June 6 - The Inaugural Address THE TECHNOLOGY LOAN FUND 439 Official Announcement of the Methods and Policies to Be Followed in the Administration of the New $4,200,000 Fund THE REUNION IN JUNE By Robert E. Rogers 442 3000 Registered, Including 1300 Guests and 1700 Alumni; Only 2600 Registered in 1925 THE TABULAR VIEW 418 Notes on Contributors and Contributions BOOKS 444 Review and Comment THE TREND OF AFFAIRS 445 The Past Month in Science and Engineering THE INSTITUTE GAZETTE 451 Relating to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology THE COVER From a Water Color by Edgar I. Williams "A Roman Doorway" CONTRIBUTING EDITOR John J. Rowlands EDITOR Harold E. Lobdell MANAGING EDITOR J. Rhyne Killian, Jr. BUSINESS MANAGER Ralph T. Jope PUBLISHED monthly on the twenty-seventh of the month preceding the date of issue at 50 cents a copy. Annual subscription $3.50: Canadian and foreign subscription $4.00. . . . Published for the Alumni Association of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Paul W. Litchfield, '96, President; Harold B. Richmond, '14, Francis J. Chesterman, '05, George K. Burgess, '96, Vice-Presidents. Published at the Rumford Press, 10 Ferry Street, Concord, N.H. Editorial Office, Room 11-203, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge A, Mass. Entered as Second-Class Mail Matter at the Post Office at Concord, N.H. . . . Copyright 1930, by The Technology Review. . . . Three weeks must be allowed to effect changes of address. Both old and new addresses should be given. [425]