Word: research
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Maya civilization flourished in Central America before the coming of the Spaniard and their subsequent conquest of the country. It dates from the birth of Christ to the middle of the sixteenth century. The Carnegie Institution of Washington has chosen two fields of research, the first at Uaxactun in northern central Guatemala and the second at Chicen Itza in north-eastern Yucatan, Mexico...
Intelligence, however, gags at the off-quoted New Haven aphorism: Princeton boys, Harvard scholars, Yale men, though heretofore it has seemed to many impossible thoroughly to do anything intellectual without assuming the title of scholar. It is doubtful if the amount of independent research work done in any undergraduate department can do more than develop the initiative and mental independence of the person involved. Scholarship only becomes dangerous when it centers interest on the piddling detail at the expense of the panorama of truth. Hardly before a man becomes a Ph.D. can he be said to have lost anything...
...Lothrop was director of the Peabody Museum expedition to Central America in 1916-17, and an associate in Anthropology at Harvard during the year 1919-20. From 1916 to 1923 he was research assistant in Anthropology at the Carnegie Institution, Washington, D. C.; in 1922 a member of the Carnegie Institution expedition to Yucatan and Guatemala; in 1923 in charge of excavations at Ketchipann, N. M., in the joint interests of the Museum of the American Indian and Cambridge University; in 1925 in charge of the joint excavations in the delta of the Parana River, South America. Since...
...started an investigation of these figures at Columbia. In the new division of Economics of Education, graduate students are delving for the human equation beneath the never questioned fact that each year of formal education equals a step in a geometric progression of salary increases. The leader of the research, Dr. Clark, says confidently "We believe that we are on the road to finding a startling reversal of facts that will affect the whole economic foundation of education in this country...
...secretary-treasurer, Metal Trades Department A. F. of L., on "The Development of Industrial Relations Through mutual Consent": Professor John R. Commons. Wisconsin University, on "Jurisdictional Disputes"; Professor William M. Leiserson, Antloch College, on "Contributions of Personnel Management to Improvement of American Labor Relations"; Elton Mayo, Associate Professor Industrial Research, in the Business School, on "Maladjustment of the Industrial Worker"; and Professor F. W. Taussig, of the Economics Department on "The Social Situation, its Difficulties, its Possibilities...