Word: researchers
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...obvious that opinion on international affairs and economic theory is worthless unless it is based on a thorough grasp of the facts gleaned from exhaustive research, and it is particularly the curse of undergraduate thought that its conclusions are usually emotional reactions arising from hasty and superficial reading or discussion. It is nonsense to raise the bugaboo of radicalism in relation to such resolutions as those passed at the Milwaukee conference. They are half-baked, and they could be nothing else. Undergraduates, with very few exceptions, have not studied long enough to subscribe with intellectual honesty to any such statements...
...annual meeting of the College Art Association of America held during the past week at Harvard, the establishment of a Spanish research committee to encourage guide research in Spanish art and archaeology and initiate an extensive series of authoritative publications was decided...
Simultaneously, British notables, headed by Director Harry Price of the National Laboratory of Psychical Research, pondered the antics of coins, which were invisibly pitched across a room where they were observing, under strict control conditions, one Eleoncre Zugan, 13, cheerful, chunky Rumanian wench who had announced: "The Devil has come with me to London. The Devil is very pleased to come to London, for he hopes to find plenty to do here." Eleonore had been rescued from a Rumanian madhouse by an elderly Rumanian countess, after being incarcerated by peasants who believed her a "witch-girl," cursed by her grandmother...
...University Appointment Office, directed by the Dean of the Faculty and by the Chairman of the Divisions and Departments, or their representatives, recommends men for teaching, administrative work, research, social service, or any occupation of an educational nature...
...properly carried into effect this provision will mean greater emphasis on the tutorial work; and correspondingly less on course marks. Such is the trend of the curriculum at Harvard; away from this artificial division of knowledge into the compartments of various courses and toward greater individual work and research under the general guidance of tutors. Every such requirement as that referred to above, every further limitation upon the number of courses required for a degree with distinction, like that which went into effect this year, is a move in the right direction. The tutorial system is taking positive form with...