Word: stanfords
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Heard an exciting debate between University of Iowa's George D. Stoddard and Stanford's Lewis Terman. Question: Is a child's I. Q. determined more by heredity or by environment? Dr. Stoddard reported that he had raised the I. Q.s of children of dull parents to that of children of college professors by placing them in good homes (TIME, Nov. 7). Said Dr. Terman: "If [these claims] can be substantiated, we have here the most important scientific discovery in the last thousand years. . . " Either the educational programs provided by other investigators are less stimulating than those...
...natural for Herbert Jr., a graduate of Stanford and Harvard Business School and since then a radio engineer, to get into seismographic oil prospecting, not only because his father has prospected off & on all his life (and still does), but because the sound technique leans heavily on radio principles. Herbert Jr., at 35, is a prospector in a big way, employing 200 men in five laboratories. He lives with his wife and three children in a secluded whitewashed brick house behind Pasadena, rides and plays a little tennis, but has little time for social doings and no time for country...
...first to postulate that the cell is a fundamental unit of life. Some time ago Joseph Meyer, a consultant at the Library of Congress, conceived the idea of a great centenary celebration in honor of Schleiden and Schwann and of the discovery of the cell theory in 1839. Hence Stanford's symposium...
...outside of biology proper his preoccupations range from the ethics of science to the meaning of life, from democracy to educational psychology. It is characteristic that he does not go to California this week merely to take part in Stanford's symposium on the cell. In San Francisco next week he is scheduled to address the National Education Association on "Education for Democracy...
...rest: Robert Chambers of New York University; Irving Widmer Bailey of Harvard; Herbert Spencer Jennings of Johns Hopkins; Richard Benedikt Goldschmidt and Charles Atwood Kofoid of the University of California; Charles Manning Child and Cornelis Barnardus van Niel of Stanford; Ross Granville Harrison of Yale; Hugo Theorell of the University of Stockholm; Olenus Lee Sponsler of the University of California at Los Angeles; Lewis Victor Heilbrunn of the University of Pennsylvania; John Desmond Bernal of the University of London. **Including Grew, Malpighi, Leuwenhoek, Wolff, Mirbel, Lamarck, Dutrochet, Meyen, von Mohl, Brown, Purldnje, Brogniart, Braur, Turpin, Dumortier...