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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Three graduates of the College and three students from the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences were among the eight men who will begin independent study and research for three years this September as Junior Fellows of the Society of Fellows...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: COLLEGE NAMES EIGHT TO SOCIETY OF FELLOWS | 5/4/1939 | See Source »

With humor and wit throughout. Professor Mott easily handles the thousand details and the prolonged research that has gone into the book, and puts forth a work that is at once scholarly and readable...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Book Published by University Press Is Given Coveted Pulitzer History Prize | 5/2/1939 | See Source »

...develop more exact methods of finding out the who, what, when, where and why of radio listening, particularly on behalf of radio education, The Rockefeller Foundation in September 1937 set up the Princeton Radio Research Project, gave it $67,000 to cover an anticipated two years' work. To its basic problem the project has not yet found all the answers. But it has turned up a mass of "byproduct" information about listener habits, types, preferences. So interesting were some of these by-product findings that The Journal of Applied Psychology delayed publication of its February issue until last month...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: By-Products | 5/1/1939 | See Source »

...Reported well under way was the Princeton Radio Research Project's special Study of Mass Hysteria, investigating last fall's Orson Welles's invasion-from-Mars broadcast which deceived hosts of U. S. gullibles, including a dauntless pair of Princeton scientists who set right out to see what they could...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: By-Products | 5/1/1939 | See Source »

...years ago, Leo Calvin Rosten, 31, Polish-born teacher, humorist, researcher, social scientist, won pseudonymous fame as Leonard Q. Ross, author of The Education of H*Y*M*A*N K*A*P*L*A*N. When that book appeared, Author Rosten was in Washington, working on a serious journalistic survey, The Washington Correspondents. Sly Author Rosten enjoyed hearing correspondents chuckle over Hyman Kaplan, ask who Leonard Q. Ross might be. Afraid they might not take his research job seriously if they knew, Author Rosten kept...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Tinsel | 5/1/1939 | See Source »

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