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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Foster '01, director of the Pollock Foundation for Economic Research, emphasized the significance of the teacher's role in the development of youths who are to be successful. The old system of a tedious apprenticeship, he declared, has passed, as it robbed the mind of the originality essential to leaders. Modern school and college education aims rather at sharpening the power of analysis in the individual student, thus equipping him with the means to find the issue of any problem and advance toward its solution...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: In the Graduate Schools | 3/18/1929 | See Source »

...luncheon program, where Dean H.W. Holmes '03, will preside, there will be two speakers, Dr. W. T. Foster '01, Director of the Pollock Foundation for Economic Research, and Professor F. W. Taussig '79, Henry Lee Professor of Economics. Both these men are ranked among America's leading economists...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: In the Graduate Schools | 3/11/1929 | See Source »

Fatter Cameramen. Once forced to hurry from place to place, carrying heavy paraphernalia, cameramen are now pushed about in soundproof wheeled booths invented to keep the whir of the camera from recording on the sound-device. Last week two specimen cameramen, one Ed Du Par and one Ray Foster, both of Warner, gained respectively seven pounds, 15 pounds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Variations Mar. 11, 1929 | 3/11/1929 | See Source »

...with the Theatre Guild, a happy event for both. She is a small brunette of perfect symmetry and French antecedents. New York first discovered her in A Kiss in a Taxi in 1925. Since then she has played in The Barker (in which she met Actor Norman Foster, whom she married), The Pearl of Great Price, The Mulberry Bush, The Ghost Train, Fast Life, and Tin Pan Alley. She has gifts which the Guild undoubtedly will magnify...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Feb. 25, 1929 | 2/25/1929 | See Source »

Said President Angell: "The Institute will foster no fads and hold no briefs for theories except those which grow out of thorough scientific investigation. It is believed by those organizing the Institute of Human Relations that the specialization which followed the important scientific discoveries of the last century has done much to advance man's knowledge of human life and the technique for dealing with special phases of it, but that the time has now come for drawing together this knowledge and applying it to the best advantage of mankind as a whole. Man himself must...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Yale's Institute | 2/25/1929 | See Source »

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