Word: research
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Prof. Wood's Report. Last week the American Society for the Control of Cancer met in Manhattan; heard its Managing Director, Dr. George A. Soper, report on European activities against cancer; heard too Professor Francis Carter Wood, director of Columbia University's Institute of Cancer Research, report on most recent remedial research...
...more so; praised the preparations being made there for a long campaign against the disease. The League of Nations has a committee comparing statistics of one nation with those of others in hopes of learning the cause of the malady. The British government supports research and education. France has anti-cancer clinics. Switzerland patronizes a centre for the study and treatment of cancer. Belgium also has such. Before the American Society for the Control of Cancer, Dr. Soper urged last week: "People must be taught the early signs of cancer and induced to seek competent medical attention when they think...
...Fifteen other laugh-provoking books he wrote* perforce, many of them as his wife failed. The public knew not his private life; demanded laughs; got them. Last week he let it be known that he would devote his fortune and his writing ability to forwarding a strenuous campaign for research in cancer or its prevention. He will probably act through the British Society for the Control of Cancer, which has branches in all the dominions...
...cinema! Ah le cinemast to reporters: "I certainly accepted the offer of my friend M. Sti.... Why not? My father has found time to lead two or three men's lives in the last few years.... Why should I not act for the cinemas, and yet continue my histological research...
...tutorial system of instruction was inauguorated in the College by the Division of History, Government and Economics in 1914 and has gradually spread to all the divisions with the exception of science departments requiring laboratory research and the Engineering School. The primary purpose of this method, as announced, is by means of individual guidance, to develop in the student sound and effective habits of thinking and the initiative to acquire knowledge from sources outside of the class room. Its aim is also to supplement the more or less passive learning process of the lecture course and to awaken the student...