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WILL DISCUSS ECONOMIC PROBLEMS AT MEETINGS TODAY AND TOMORROW

LARGE NUMBER OF BUSINESS MEN TO ATTEND

Business men from over a wide section of the United States will meet together this evening and tomorrow when the Committee on Economic Research holds its fourth annual conference, to which are invited the subscribers to the University Economic Service of business surveys and forecasts issued by the committee.

The first session will be held at the Harvard Club of Boston at 8 o'clock this evening at which Professors C. J. Bullock and H. B. Vanderblue, G. '15, will talk on the subject of "Prices over the Next Ten Years". The speeches, at this as at the other sessions, will be followed by general discussion.

The delegates will meet again tomorrow morning at the Union at 10 o'clock, with Professor W. M. Persons of the Department of Economics and Professor W. L. Crum of Yale as speakers. "The Course of Stock Prices of Groups of Manufacturing Industries" will be Professor Person's subject, while Professor Crum will discuss the subject, "Do High and Low Money Rates Succeed each other at Uniform Intervals of Years?"

The subscribers will take luncheon at the Union at 1 o'clock, attend the Centre College football game, and dine with the Harvard Club of Boston at 7. At this dinner addresses on "Next Year's Business" will be delivered by Mr. Leonard P. Ayres, vice-president of the Cleveland Trust Company, who was in charge of the statistical work of the War Department during the war, and by Mr. George W. Norris, Governor of the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia.

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