Word: research
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...past have enabled the distribution of considerable material which otherwise might not have seen print and would have been lost to large circulation among scholars and general readers. The new project at Duke enters upon a fertile and comparatively little worked field. A journal, devoted solely to research in American letters can easily find its scope of service. The coming first number with its articles on Sydney Lanter, Bret Harte, Edgar Allan Poe reveals the type of work to be expected. An awakening of national self-consciousness in American literature in a movement disconnected from the Sherwood Anderson-Sinclair Lewis...
Margaret Sanger, chief U. S. prophetess of Birth Control, is now devoting herself to the Birth Control Clinical Research Bureau in Manhattan...
There appeared lately a book unique in U. S. medical history. It is Technique of Contraception: the Principles & Practice of Anti-Conceptional Methods, by Dr. James F. Cooper, medical director of the Clinical Research Department of the American Birth Control League. No such book has ever before been printed in the U. S., nor made available, because the Government has forbidden the importation from England of the only other book of its kind in English, Marie Carmichael Slopes's Contraception: its Theory, History and Practice. In German Dr. Alfred Grotjahn, professor of social hygiene at the University of Berlin...
Money is a sine qua non of the research which birth-control leaders have under way. Last fortnight Mrs. Sanger gathered 500 well-to-do and persuaded New Yorkers in a ballroom of the Hotel Plaza. To stimulate donations to support
...Foster '01, director of the Pollock Foundation for Economic Research, emphasized the significance of the teacher's role in the development of youths who are to be successful. The old system of a tedious apprenticeship, he declared, has passed, as it robbed the mind of the originality essential to leaders. Modern school and college education aims rather at sharpening the power of analysis in the individual student, thus equipping him with the means to find the issue of any problem and advance toward its solution...