Word: staffs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...outstanding exception is furnished by the pioneering work of the Psychology A staff. From masses of charts, graphs, and experiments of all sorts, they have devised a sliding scale for marking papers that is a triumph of refined and scientific scholarship. Marks, numerical or letter, mean comparatively little; the student's rank as a member of the course is all that matters. A distribution curve based on long experience is worked out before the course starts, and by his rank each student is fitted into his rightful place on that curve. Hence the continuity of the course average is kept...
There should be the closest possible co-operation between the college and the tutoring schools. A separate staff would probably be necessary in University Hall to concern itself solely with tutoring bureau relations. Students applying for aid would be recommended to any on a list of approved schools; and conversely, these would accept only tutees sent to them by University officials. A vigil ceaseless as that of the vestal virgins would have to be maintained in order to keep the schools within their proper limits. On the other hand, the faculty could use these same schools as sources of information...
...sciences; puttered with chemistry and photography in boyhood, studied biology at the University of Pennsylvania, took an M.A. in psychology, taught general science in high school, wrote science articles for newspapers. In 1924 he met the late Dr. Edwin Emery Slosson, famed chemistry popularizer, who hired him as a staff writer for Science Service. As a Science Service writer Stokley hopped over to Germany to get his first look at a planetarium. He was thrilled. Since then he has directed two solar eclipse expeditions and two years ago, on a freighter in the Pacific with Astronomer John Quincy Stewart...
...editor, McClure was a trial, but a stimulating one. A meteoric traveler, he returned to the office with despairing laments that the magazine was dying (its circulation climbed from 8,000 to 750,000 in twelve years), that the staff could not understand him. Reading the files of a rival publication, he exclaimed, "Not a Lincoln article! It is not a great magazine!" Thereupon he set Ida Tarbell to writing her enormously successful Life of Lincoln. Editor Lincoln Steffens was bewildered by the passion with which McClure ran staff meetings, spouted good and bad ideas-one of them, that Steffens...
...dollar today," then caught himself and added hastily, "that is, if he could do it honestly." McClure's flourished as the articles appeared, went on growing until McClure announced his biggest idea: a chain of commercial companies, a model community. Steffens, Tarbell, a McClure partner, several staff members, resigned in a body. McClure's never recovered. But Ida Tarbell implies that the staff members never functioned quite so well working for themselves or for less trying editors...