Word: research
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Other activities projected include research for the Non-Partisan League with end of presenting voters with a historical study of the labor movement and with an analysis of issues in the campaign, particularly economic ones...
...port on the Red Sea, but they did not know where it was. Last week Dr. Millar Burrows of Yale announced that the port had been found by explorations and excavations near Aqaba. The finder is Dr. Nelson Glueck, heading an expedition of the American School for Oriental Research. Aqaba is a town encircled by towering granite hills on a narrow gulf at the Red Sea's northern end. During the War it was captured from the Turks by Arabian forces under the late, strange Colonel T. E. Lawrence...
...entitled Yellow Jack Breaks Jail, by Physician Victor G. Heiser. Its discouraging findings were that the enigma of yellow fever has not yet, after all, been completely solved. Theory has been that the Aedes mosquito was the only carrier, and that the virus required a human host. But exhaustive research has since proved that the Aedes aegypti mosquito is not the only carrier, and that men are not the only hosts to the yellow fever virus; that it can be harbored by many other creatures (TIME, April...
Course 10, Experimental Psychology and Introductory Laboratory, is also a worth while course to take early, is well taught and not hard, occupying two hours on two afternoons a week. The laboratory equipment could stand improvement, however. Stevens is a fine research man, but does not have any extra time for students in this course...
...field of Sociology is the newest in the College, having been established in 1931. It provides an excellent theoretical framework for a wide variety of vocations including all the social sciences, and those courses which involve individual cases are suggested for pre-medical work. For teaching, research, and government work, Sociology is helpful, and it is also on an equal with Government for Law School preparation. The nature of the subject requires that most of the Undergraduate work be devoted to theory, and while there are one or two good practical courses offered in the field, anyone who is going...