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- The Harvard Fatigue Laboratory, which brings together researchers from multiple disciplines to study physical aspects of work, is established at HBS.
- The new HBS campus, designed by New York architects McKim, Mead & White, is dedicated on June 4, with GE's president Owen D. Young as the keynote speaker.
- Baker Library is completed
- Straus familly establishes endowed professorship in business history
- Business historian N.S.B. Gras joins faculty; begins Harvard Studies in Business History series
- Donham suffers a near-fatal heart attack in June
- Harvard Square tobacconist's ad describes HBS men as "cool under fire . . . In the School, On the Job"
- Railway and Locomotive Historical Society establishes its headquarters in Baker Library
- Weeks Bridge is dedicated in May; brings Harvard steam pipes and electricity to Soldiers Field
- William Ziegler, Jr., gives $1 million for international research chair
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