Word: institutionalize
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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In 1914, Seth Barnes Nicholson, keen-eyed young graduate student at Lick Observatory, sighted Satellite IX. Last week the Carnegie Institution of Washington announced that Dr. Nicholson, still in California looking for new moons, had discovered dim, elusive Satellites X and XI with Mt. Wilson's 100-inch telescope...
The day is now one-thousandth of a second longer than it was a century ago. Although this change has had no effect on clocks, it is highly significant for astronomers. Just before he died last July, venerable, 71-year-old Professor Ernest William Brown of Yale, who spent half...
Last week it appeared in the Institution's annual report.
Boys Town (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). In 1917 a young Omaha priest named Father Edward J. Flanagan borrowed $90 to start a unique U. S. institution: Boys Town, Neb., a home for waifs, run according to its founder's belief that there is no such thing as a bad boy...
The orientation of incoming students is a very pressing problem for every educational institution. No completely satisfactory method has yet been found to insure that the Freshman receive advice and encouragement adequate for a satisfactory, harmonious, and short period of orientation. The members of the Council will be glad to...