Word: authorative
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Leading LaGuardians on the board are Columbia University's roly-poly Professor Joseph D. McGoldrick, currently running for comptroller of the city, and ruddy, fast-talking John T. Flynn, writer and economist. Others include Author Ordway Tead, Amalgamated Clothing Workers Secretary-Treasurer Joseph Schlossberg. Art Critic Lewis Mumford is the one who resigned...
...outstanding characteristic of the book might be said to be its factual presentation of material. The author does not ask or expect his readers to accept any of his theories without proof. He presents us with the facts which resulted from his experiments. The book is accompanied by a set of cards used at Duke University and the reader may conduct the same tests with subjects...
...current issue of the Alumni Bulletin is featured an article written by J.M. Crowther, scientific correspondent of the Manchester Guardian. The author visited Harvard last spring and gave a course of six public lectures on "The History of American Science...
...back up this statement the author cites many examples of how the college is forever pushing ahead. He picks out particularly the academic policy of President Conant by which the progressiveness is expressed. To Crowther the two feaures of this academic policy are the establishment of "roving professorships" and Conant's interest in the cultivation of accurate press reporting of the progress of learning...
Important also to Crowther is the encouragement offered for the study of the history of science and learning. In this field the author states that Harvard has in Dr. Sarton, "the most learned of the historians of science...