Word: experts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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President Hoover at last declared himself on the Tariff Act of 1930. He said he would sign it. Though he had been described as "open-minded" on the measure and determined to subject it to expert study beforehand, he did not wait for the bill to reach his desk before proclaiming his intention of approving it. While the measure was still waiting in the Senate for its last formality-the signature of Vice President Curtis-astonished newsmen at the White House were handed a typed statement in which President Hoover declared...
...newsgatherers, camera men and police who soon congregated in the pedestrian tunnel were profoundly impressed, agitated, angry. For this corpse had not been a gangster, or a policeman, or a mere citizen. He was a Newspaper Reporter - Alfred ("Jake") Lingle, the loud and powerful Chicago Tribune's seasoned expert on Chicago crime, a man acquainted with under-worldlings from the meanest racetrack tipster to Alphonse ("Scarface") Capone himself, whom he visited for the Tribune winter before last at the Capone estate in Miami Beach, Fla. From the Tribune's tower on upper Michigan Avenue soon issued a grim...
...less on the Tariff Bill than he does on all legislation-refer it to the interested departments, in this case Treasury and Commerce, for technical opinions. If the President should choose to veto the bill, he would count on Secretaries Mellon and Lamont to supply him with expert reasons for so doing...
...education and psychology at Stanford University. His work has been done in the general field of the statistical and experimental study of educational issues in which he is an outstanding authority. He received his A.B. from the University of Illinois in 1909. During the war he served as psychological expert for the Committee on Classification of Personnel of the U. S. Army. His publications include "Educational Guidance" 1914. "Interpretation of Educational Measurements" 1927, and "Crossroads in the Mind of Man", 1928. His instruction at Harvard will consist of advanced courses in statistical method and a seminary in psychometrics...
...plan and its subsequent developments, an effort is to be made to provide adequate instruction for the Freshman class. The immediate change, the development of the advisory system, is the smallest and least important item of this development. It is quite possible, however, that a greater and more expert personal interest in individual first year men will help to avoid many of the usual scholastic pitfalls that threaten at the beginning of the college career. But to accomplish any substantial reform, the entire system of instruction of the first year must be improved. When this is done, many...