Word: research
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...training involves a discovery made several years ago by the School of Education. It was found that the success and speed of a reader varies as the number of stops he must make for each line of type read. The number of halts of the Yardlings used for the research was reduced from ten to six in the short period in which they have been working...
...tenure for younger instructors and increased competition in the upper ranks--will go far toward alleviating many problems that now face the profession. In addition to decreasing inter-faculty friction, these proposals will contribute to the improvement of the quality both of Harvard's teaching and of its research...
...will serve only as a stimulus to those academicians who at the present time are prone to rest on their laurels. Although minor objections may remain, it seems likely that these proposals will not only decrease the present discontent among instructors, but will also raise standards of teaching and research...
...evaluation of research, the inherent distinction between different fields must be kept constantly in mind. In the experimental sciences or mathematics, the possibility of making an independent contribution at an early age is far greater than in the humanities or the social sciences. There must be no application of the standards of one field to the problems of another, and publication alone cannot be accepted as the measure of achievement, nor should popular success be allowed to outweigh the judgment of professionally competent opinion. The presence in the upper ranks of the faculty of a few professors who are apparently...
Criteria of judgement which the Emerson committee sets up include the quality of the candidate's teaching ability, and of his research work, both published and unpublished, with particular emphasis on his probable success as a tutor if he falls in that category...