4, "rW9L1 N A1' ( W I rANK r)AITT PAGF, TnIVA __ . _ _ , t . a V._ ... . r .. . WL;DNE3i.DAY, 1 EtUARY 25, 1931I 1 iC.iVi l,1; 1 %a Piv uLh LL. a 'q '. :, i DUDY TO DISCUSS P' NS OUO Univej In A vigor biological ma thatt empire in remainsN sity biol sailed frc district o of the ex selyn Va of birdsc Dr. Adol F New York Financier Gve Review of Financial Prospects for 1931. to I -A LARGE COMPANY tr of i Bartlett, ment ofk I Leids Presidency of Statistical The in Organization Serving All ancientr Important Cities. actun in Guatema Tohn Moody, president of Moody's stitution Investors service, who is regarded carrying as one of the most prominent men in the financial world, will speak at. 4:15 o'clock Friday afternoon in room 1025, Angell ball on 'The Fl- nancial and Business Galook for 1931." He will lectrew under the auspices of the School of B3usinaes Administration. Mr. Moody exercises daily super- Candida vision of his large statistical organ- ization in New York city. His of I branch offices are found in all the other important cities of the coun- try, and lie maintains an independ- Call fo ent unit, Moody's Investors service, and busi Ltd., in London, which serves in- vestors abroad. ganensia Through his control of this or-G ganization, Mr. Moody has probably ing edito as great a responsibility as any' '31, busi other man on Wall street, since the men and invsinmnt of millions of dollars is on the y governed by the advice of the requested Knowxs Financiers. the staffs having been in financial work noon in t since 188, Mr. Moody has been a Work c familiar of some of the greatest senbury, financiers of the past 30 years. He interestin has enjoyed the confidence-or the "Thev enmitdy- --of such men as the Goulds, for expre Morgan, Frick, and Harriman. His routine j understanding of business has been ative tale increased during his long experi- he said. ence and still keeps pace with the Ample present trends. three ap Mr. Moody took his first position the sever in the financial world in 1896 with book is the investment banking house of classes,a Spencer Trask & Co. By 1900 he ties, frat was manager of the bond depart- coing o ment of this firm. He decided that will be yr to pubish ,is first manual. both edit ye~nr "t~oment. I His decision to sponsor this publi-tryouts a cation rose, in part, from his in- lower sta ability to secure a reliable source more res of financial information. the seco Manual Popular. for appo The first manual, a volume of and man about 1,100 pages, received instant Women approval. This was the progenitor freshman of the present Moody's Manual of ly the sa Investments, comprising more than arate wo 16,000 pages. Soon after the publi- editor a cation of the first manual, Mr. charge o Moody conceived the idea of a rat- section o ing system on securities similar to In add that employed by credit agencies. tor ther After several years of experiment, who obt he was able to announce Moody's much th Rating. men's se To these, Mr. Moody ascribes a the men great measure of his subsequent Recent success. They were instantly re- doned th ceived by the investing public and dominat have become a standard yardstick has ado] by which the worth of securities layouts is measured. ranks it in the c PLANS FOR BOOK EXCHANGE GIVEN Following a report on the success of the venture, the Round Table club announced yesterday that the Used Book exchange, which the club founded this year, will be con- tinued, but has decided to keep the exchange open only at the begin- ning and end of semesters and summer school. It will be open from 2 to 5 o'clock daily for the remain- der of the week, so students may call for the money on books sold. The exchange proved a great sue- cess, it was reported by Leonard Kimball, president of the Round Table club, and warrants being car- C redod o. "However, it should be regarded only as a minimum expedient " shaled Kimball. Carator to Conduct i Zoological Seminar, J. Speed Rogers, assistant curator Cif diptera in the division of insects of the department of zoology, will p SOIndlct :i ZOJOgy seminar at 7:30 o'clock Thursday in room 2116, Na- tural Sin