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were also a few significant losses. In 1914, Dr. Albert W. Hull, one of the most able scientists on the staff, was given leave of absence to do research work in the laboratories of General Electric Co. He accepted a permanent berth there the following year. Dr. Samuel J. Plimpton, graduate of Yale, former instructor there and at Johns Hopkins, joined the Physics staff in 1914. The following year, Dr. Morton Masius was Promoted to assistant professor of Physics, and Carleton D. Haigis, '15, was added as an instructor. Robert C. Sweetser was promoted to professor of Analytical Chemistry in 1914. T. Roland Briggs, who for two years had been instructor in Theoretical Chemistry, went to Cornell as assistant professor, and was succeeded by Farrington Daniels, a graduate of Minnesota and Harvard.

In the Mechanical Engineering department, Howard P. Fairfield and James C. Davis were promoted to assistant professorships in 1914. Prof. John H. Nelson was on leave for the first half of that year, engaged on special problems for the U. S. Bureau of Standards. He resigned his Institute post in 1916 to take a permanent position in the Bureau. In 1916, an exchange of teachers with M. 1. T. was arranged, Francis W. Roys going to Cambridge for a year and Dean Peabody, Jr., filling his place at Worcester. The Civil Engineering department continued its policy of employing short-term instructors. Robert C. Mansfield, graduate of Tufts, succeeded Willard Hedlund, '10, in 1914. He was succeeded by Albert S. Crandon, '14, and Peter W. Brouwers, '13, who also taught Mathematics; Herbert N. Eaton, '16, succeeded Crandon in 1916 for a two-year term. Arthur J. Knight of this department was promoted to assistant professor in 1916, and early in 1917, became superintendent of buildings and grounds when Samuel E. Balcom. resigned. Professor Butterfield gave part of his time to Civil Engineering instruction after 1914, when he became professor of Mathematics and Geodesy.

John A. Spaulding, Harvard, '12, became instructor of German in 1914. In 1916, Professor Long resigned, after three

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