Word: research
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Financier Robert Fulton Cutting modestly stayed away from last week's meeting of the American Society for the Control of Cancer in Manhattan, where President Emeritus George Emerson Brewer of the College of Physicians & Surgeons asserted again: "The most important present day problem in cancer control is publicity. Research work in cancer is making great strides and the great need is to teach the public to have the disease treated at an early stage of development. . . . If every case could be recognized in two weeks after cancer has set in, and then treated by surgery, there would...
...question of fecundating the borrowed ovaries, one must make new experiments, for in scientific research it is necessary to have much patience." Scientists awaited the publication of Dr. Voronoff's full report on human-ovaried Nora, meantime noting as fallacies in Dr. Voronoff's reports to date...
...rapid organization and to the fact that it is superimposed on an educational system already established, was far from being as complete as the English. In English colleges there are no regular lecture courses with required attendance. The work of the students consists almost entirely of independent reading and research guided by the tutor...
...handicap which has faced the universities in their effort to institute honors courses and tutorial systems, to leave more to the individual effort and research of the undergraduate and less to the traditional lecture and test system has been the lack of proper training on the part of the preparatory school. The incoming Freshman arrives armed with the requisite number of facts but with a mind whose development has been retarded by the herding which it has undergone continuously from childhood. The mental processes work only in a crowd or with the crowd. Knowledge means nothing unless it is translated...
Professor McDougall is ranked among the foremost psychologists of the world. He obtained his degree of Master of Arts at Oxford and shortly afterwards became a member of the British. Society of Psychical Research. In 1898 he was made a reader in mental philosophy at Oxford, becoming a Fellow of Corpus Christ College...