Word: researchers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Astounding it was to U. S. physicians, patients and therapeutic lamp manufacturers to learn that the British Medical Research Council last week decried the use of light treatments. There are two general kinds of light used in medicine-heat-producing, generated by carbon filaments; and ultraviolet ray (artificial sunlight) producing, generated by a carbon arc, by a mercury arc, or by special filaments lighting through quartz. Undoubtedly such lights have done good. This is particularly so of the ultraviolet light, used to overcome rickets by direct exposure of puny children...
...British Medical Research Council, an authoritative organization, did proclaim last week that "when conditions between children with and without [light] treatment is equalized, the result of light treatment is wholly negative." The only difference, declared the Council, between light treatment and mustard plasters, was that plasters were cheaper...
...foot in the grave now and the other foot on a banana peel, you old fiend." Remarked Surgeon Keen: "I take it that the letter is from a woman. If so I pity her possible husband. The fun of the thing is that I never have been a research worker. I have never experimented on any animal, not even a mouse or a frog. I shall keep my eye on that banana peel, you may be sure." Last January Surgeon Keen...
...should also place more emphasis on teaching in our universities. If we would cut out a little of the original research and substitute some fine teaching in its place we would be much better off. Good teaching, however, will not get a young instructor ahead, hence there is no impetus to foster better teaching. I was talking to a young professor just starting out and he told me that the only way to get ahead was to publish volumes of books or to receive offers from other universities...
...receiving his Masters degree in 1912. He came to Harvard in 1915 being instructor in economics here for two years. From 1916 to 1922 he was associate professor of transportation at Northwestern University but he returned to Cambridge again in 1922. At present Professor Vanderblue is Director of Economic Research and also professor in the Business School. His resignation does not take effect until next September. Evidently Professor Vanderblue has made no future plans, for when asked what he intended to do next year he merely said, "How do I know...