Word: research
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Simon Williams, 37, of New York, who has done extensive work in forestry textile research, will work in the field of general education...
Professor Talcott Parsons, Chairman of the Department of Social Relations, has been relieved of his administrative duties this fall to conduct research. Professor Allport replaces him as temporary chairman of the Department...
Those departments, other than the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, which reported surpluses included: the Houses, $98,231; the Hygiene Department and Stillman Infirmary, $31,619; the dining halls, $17,179; and eight scientific museums and research institutions...
...climbing steadily out of its long postwar slump. Last week the Bureau of Internal Revenue announced that August was the fourth month this year to run ahead of 1948's corresponding month in admissions tax returns. To make things even brighter, Dr. George Gallup's Audience Research, Inc. reported a steady fall in the average price of admission paid by U.S. moviegoers. With total receipts on the rise, that spelled growing attendance. The average spent for a ticket in August was 45?, compared to a postwar peak of 48.8? early in the year...
These suggestions add up to a full-time course for credit and such a course should be required for many graduate degrees, because the majority of professional people in the academic world go into teaching, not research. The present graduate curriculum creates a frame of mind often specialized and sophisticated to an ingrown stage, not oriented to teaching--which requires simplification and work with unmotivated students...