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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...meet the higher standards of college courses, he must be stimulated by first rate teachers, and guided by able and interested advisors. Unfortunately the section-men in the Freshman courses are young graduate students, who have had little or no experience in the art of teaching. Striving for Ph. D. degrees, they have little time to devote to their sections, as their promotion depends almost entirely upon their capacity to do research work. The Freshman advisor, likewise, is burdened with his own scholastic endeavors, and has not the time to hold frequent meetings with his advisees, talk over their problems...
...schoolteacher Alcott was a heretic from the start. His innovations-all aimed at drawing out rather than cramming the pupil-drew wide and often unfavorable attention. By the time he had married and started his famed Temple School in Boston he was known as an educational revolutionary. The Ph. D.'s of the day considered him a rank incompetent. "He turned over and tumbled up and down at least a thousand of the most influential books in the world . . . yet the total result never amounted to anything in the least like erudition. His faculty for ignoring and forgetting...
Once affiliated with the Presbyterian and church, Knox made an apt choice in Davidson. He is a of the Congregational , ordained in two years after he the duties of Carleton's president. Harvard gave him his the University of his M. A., Chicago Ph. D. He has the Universities of and Chicago...
Last week Lieut.-Col. Augustin M. Prentiss, Ph. D., of the U. S. Army's Chemical Warfare Service published a 739-page treatise entitled Chemicals in War* which was hailed by colleagues as the most comprehensive work on the subject in English. † In this book Lieut.-Col. Prentiss describes in minute detail the tactics and accessory equipment of chemical warfare, the organization of chemical troops, the chemicals used in the World War, their composition, manufacture, military value, physiological effects and probable role in future war. A chapter on the protection of civil populations is contributed by Major George...
...years ago this woman, a University of Kansas Master of Arts (1914), a Bryn Mawr Ph. D. (1917), onetime professor at the University of Minnesota, stocked her laboratory with a 25-lb. can of rice, can upon can of corn syrup and started a series of week-long dietary experiments. For four days she eats only two cups of boiled rice and corn syrup in small doses. This eliminates sulfur compounds from her system to such an extent that none can be detected in her blood or what she modestly euphemizes as "other fluids." On the fifth day she takes...