Word: research
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Champ '19 would certainly give the impression of being an earnest worker for the Illustrated. As in the "Auto Show" number, he has contributed two articles--both unusually interesting and calling for no small degree of of research. In the first, "Harvard Racing Shells," he traces the development of the shell from 1846, when the first Harvard crew rowed in the clumsy lap-streak barge "Oneida," to the efficient shells of today--those which lower records, on the Thames at New London. In "From Watch Hill to R. O. T. C.," the part that the University has played in former...
Yale has probably been the leader in the promptness and completeness with which it has prepared for the emergency. The university has organized a unit of the Reserve Officers' Training Corps, a unit of the Naval Training, the aviation coast patrol and the motor boat patrol; a research committee to co-operate with the National Research Council, a unit of the Intercollegiate Intelligence Bureau, and has built a complete armory and stables. If war comes, Yale is prepared to put its equipment at the disposal of the Government, to turn over Yale Field and the armory as a training camp...
...first time a statement of the terms of the Shaler Memorial Fund Endowment, given by alumni of the University in 1907, in memory of the long service of Professor Nathaniel Southgate Shaler '62, now amounting to more than $30,000. This fund is devoted to the support of original research...
...Lecture Hall, will begin at 2.30 o'clock. The subject of "Educational Finances and Economies" will be the topic discussed. Included among those who are to address the meeting are Mr. Frank V. Thompson '07, Assistant Superintendent of Schools, Boston; Dr. Frank W. Ballou '14, Director of Educational Research, Boston; Mr. Myron W. Richardson '86, Headmaster of the Girls' High School, Boston; and Mr. Henry Turner Bailey. This meeting will be open to the public...
Another educator applies a similar criticism to the research and graduate work done in American colleges. He finds that students doing more advanced work do not show the initiative and originality they should, and consequently are passive and docile in their thoughts. The reason given by this writer for such submissiveness of mind is to be found in the present system of wholesale memory work. Lecture notes and contents of books are learned for the occasion only and do not become a permanent mental possession to serve as a background for the more advanced work...