Word: commentator
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Ninety per cent of the historical research work now being carried on in the United States, is done by men who hold Ph.D. degrees," asserted William Benneit Munro '99, Jonathan Trumbull Professor of American History and Government; yesterday when asked by a CRIMSON representative to comment upon the questionnaire recently sent out by the American Historical Association. This questionnaire asks instructors and graduate students at universities throughout the country to explain what facilities are afforded them for conducting independent research work and also to state their individual opinions in regard to the causes for the dearth of productive work...
...third and last comment on the Historical Association's query is that research work in itself is not specifically encouraged by most. American endowment funds for research, and the college itself may grant vacations with half pay to some of its instructors for research purposes, but productive effort on the scale evidently desired by the Historical Association is not made practicable and probably never will...
...many enemies as friends. Certainly the brotherhood of the press seems to be strained; South Carolina papers retorted that the Pulitzer journal was meddling in other people's business merely for the sake of sensationalism. Very wisely the World took no notice of such accusations other than to comment succinctly on the sensitiveness of the unjust. By their really frenzied editorials, which were not only foolish but also in bad taste, the southern papers have further incriminated their state and prejudiced the public. Meanwhile all commendations to the World which would appear to live besides the best columnist...
...editorials printed below need little comment. Here one can see a definite desire on the part of those often maligned gentlemen, "the press", to give their public sane opinions of certain phases of college life...
...Figaro in the shape of a conference at Amsterdam to do something about the severely detrimental economic effects of rheumatism. The statisticians of this gathering have discovered that by limbering up the world three million days would be saved annually; they have the will to accomplish this result, "mais comment?" as Le Figaro concludes...