Word: scientificizing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Carnegie Institution. Ranking next to the $550,000,000 which the John Davison Rockefellers have given to social agencies is the $350,000,000 which Andrew Carnegie (1837-1919) gave. The sum constituted nine-tenths of his fortune. To endow the Carnegie Institution of Washington he assigned $10,000,000...
John Campbell Merriam, 59, paleontologist, educator, has been president of the Carnegie Institution since 1920 and administrator of its 13 subsidiary bodies of scientific research. He is a veritable tycoon. But where most tycoons are acquisitive of fortunes, he is a dispenser.
It was not the first time far-sighted Merchant Filene had helped the League. He has outstanding another $25,000 offer to the Labor Office's Scientific Management Institute, conditional upon the Rockefeller Institute's donating a like amount. And the International Labor Conference which last week opened...
While these experiments are still going on and will continue, the School is well past the point where in its total activities it can be considered experimental whether judged by its appeal to students, by the practical and professional value of its training as shown by the accomplishments and attitudes...
On the material side it has fared well. Starting in 1908, with an underwriting of $15,000 a year for five years, it has at the close of this 20-year period an endowment and income from tuition sufficient to insure the operation of the School without deficit, and, in...