Word: scientificism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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But it was the fourth year (1891) that "Pudge" Heffelfinger made his name a Yale football tradition. The Spring before he had been graduated by Sheffield Scientific School. He was then 23 years old, weighed 204 pounds, was 6 ft. 2¾ in. tall and wore a size 10 shoe. His...
The committee has also suggested that the problem should not be ap- proached from the quasi-scientific point of view but should be attacked from the human angle. Vocational guidance charts, in many cases, the course which the man will sail for the rest of his life. Therefore, there should...
The next problem is, what sort should this guidance be? In the first place, in the opinion of this committee, vocational guidance should aim to be human rather than scientific. It is a problem in helping young men find themselves, to be answered by sympathetic human contact rather than by...
In the face of these expert opinions, Scientist-Financier Adams remained a dissenter. He had read in foreign scientific publications about the success some Swiss engineers were having with Alternating Current, which requires, as schoolboys know, much less initial impulse and much less bulky lines for transmission over long distances...
Then, actuated as much by scientific curiosity as by financial prudence, he set off for Europe to see for himself the status of Alternating Current. Before going he ended all his Edison connections, to remain unprejudiced in the controversy.