Word: research
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Berg Burning. At Montreal, Dr. Howard T. Barnes, Physics Professor at McGill University, announced an expedition in June to Greenland to experiment with heat mines on icebergs. After 30 years of ice research, he has concocted a chemical he calls "thermit," nonexplosive, non-inflammable, rendered dangerous only by contact with ice, when it develops intense heat in a few seconds. The plan is to apply "thermit" to Greenland's west coast glaciers, "burn them up" before they break off in the huge chunks so dangerous to Atlantic shipping. Floating bergs will also be attacked, the scientists rowing alongside, planting...
...anniversary of the inauguration of the late Daniel Coit Gilman as its first President. Educators took interest because that inauguration is commonly taken as marking the starting point of postgraduate education in the U. S. Dr. Gilman was "the father of the graduate school, the great apostle of university research...
...discount in Manhattan as compared with the average school community, school children are sly and mousing when taking examinations. That was the inference the National Vocational Guidance Association could but draw from a paper read before it last week at its meeting in Washington, by Dr. Mark A. May, research specialist of Columbia Teachers' College. He had conducted "a long series of psychiatric tests" upon 245 urchins in a Manhattan public school. When eagle-eyed instructors brooded over the scene to make peeking, cribbing and question-whispering practically impossible, 3% of the children were cunning and daring enough...
...Clausens is now teaching at the Raad School of Social Research where he is also pursuing his studies in social problems. Because of his activity in fields of research. Mr. Clausens is able to speak with authority on many phases of social ethics...
...decision to devote itself principally to the training of graduates in research work, Johns Hopkins university returns to the policy of its founders. This hardy step involves the gradual elimination of a thriving college, now having more than a thousand candidates for the A. B. degree, and the sacrifice of the loyalty of many a staunch alumnus...