Word: researching
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...teachers, athletics, student government, and the honor system. Instead of adopting half baked resolutions, approving this and condemning that, permanent committees were set up or recommended to study the curriculum, teachers and student government and report at the congress next December. This ensures so far as possible scholarly, effective research. Second, a news service, which has already been initiated, will be developed into an effective center of feature articles by men such as Meiklejohn, of reports on constructive reforms and general problems from various colleges and universities, released from a common center. This in turn brings up the third point...
...joint Board of Engineers of the U. S. and Canada announced last week the results of the most exhaustive research on the problem of inland waterways that has yet been attempted. Significant items in their report...
Tank. The bear went over the mountain to see what he could see. Director of Tropical Research William Beebe, of the New York Zoological Society, wants to go under the mountain-the mile-high mountain of the deep sea-to see what can be seen by the light of luminous fishes. Last week he announced that a leading steel corporation was making him a specially designed deep-sea diving tank, doubtless on the order of Inventor Hartman's "diving bell" which has penetrated thousands of feet deeper than any live man ever went in the ocean and came back...
...season. The association of names, the recognition of clubs and fraternities will aid considerably in maintaining a permanent record of the classes and class organizations. The volume, bound in red leather, contains the usual group and individual pictures, articles on the Business School Clubs, and the School of Business Research...
...Perhaps if, there were more endowment funds like the Rockefeller Foundation, and the other research funds, the inducement might be greater for young men to enter the research field. Also, if college professors were allotted more time to pursue this branch of their profession, considerable stimulus would be added to the movement. But while the road to a faculty position is made easy by the Ph.D. degree, there will be little scholarly investigation by the younger seperation of college graduates...