Word: stanfords
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Inquisitive Dr. Alvin C. Eurich (a co-author of TIME'S current affairs tests), who used to be at University of Minnesota and is now a professor of education at Stanford University, and Minnesota's Dr. C. Robert Pace investigated what had become of Minnesota men and women graduates, vintages of 1928 to 1936. They tracked down nearly 6,000, came to the sad conclusion that "a bachelor's degree is not an insurance policy against the effects of an economic depression." Chief findings...
...Stanford, the University of California, U.C.L.A., and the University of Southern California the name of Harvard is a symbol of smugness. And to Dartmouth--which appears to their Cambridge brothers in study as a formidable part of the one-third of our nation which is "ill-clad, ill-fed, ill-housed"--Harvard represents the high horse of stuffiness...
...Both Stanford and Alabama thrive in an atmosphere far removed from mayors and city councils. Besides being autonomous units, they have their own fire and police forces, and are not in the least worried by garbage troubles. Then own men cart it away...
...West, the University of California, last year's Pacific Coast Conference champion and Rose Bowl winner, having lost six of its 1937 team by graduation, looked as though it might have a tough struggle defending its title against Southern California, Oregon or Stanford...
...most important investigations in this field was made in Illinois by University of Chicago's Professors Ernest Watson Burgess and Leonard S. Cottrell Jr. (TIME, Feb. 7). Last week a far more searching study* was completed by Stanford University's famed Psychologist Lewis Madison Terman (intelligence tests). Professor Terman and his staff examined 792 middle-class couples (average income: $2,450) in California. He asked them hundreds of questions, took elaborate precautions to preserve their anonymity so they would answer truthfully. Biggest news in his report is a finding that satisfactory sexual mating is not the prime requirement...