Word: survey
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...business, opportunities for the start of a full, useful, and successful life. Easy opportunities abound. Three hundred and twenty-eight graduates of M. I. T., Northeastern, Tufts, and Harvard, have been employed by the State of Massachusetts for the last twenty months. They are occupied in making a "control survey" of the state, establishing latitudes, longitudes, and elevations in 175 cities and towns. No matter how worth-while the project from the point of view of Pure Science, that kind of employment is wasteful of the abilities of educated men, provides no opportunities for progress and a secure future...
...appointing one more commission to study the "youth problem" last fortnight, Dr. George Frederick Zook, poker-faced Director of the American Council on Education, reassured Washington newshawks: "This will not be just another survey." Last week the new commission, made up of President Robert Maynard Hutchins of the University of Chicago, onetime President Henry Ingraham Harriman of the U. S. Chamber of Commerce, Novelist Dorothy Canneld Fisher, Newton Diehl Baker and ten others, met with its creator. For it Dr. Zook had two presents which gave his boast solid foundation. One was an $800,000 bankroll...
...Zook-Rockefeller-Rainey Commission will begin with a survey of all the youth, recreation and health programs in the country, try to bring some order into them. To drum up interest it will hold public forum meetings and when it has made up its mind about improvements, it will establish demonstration centres to popularize them...
Among the many posts which he has held during his career so far: Director of the Botanical Survey of Nebraska 1892-1903; Commissioner of Appeals, the Supreme Court of Nebraska 1901-03; Nebraska commissioner on uniform state laws 1904-07; secretary of the Nebraska state bar association 1901-07; president of the Association of American Law Schools 1910; and a member of President Hoover's National Commission on Law Observance and Enforcement...
...have been made by college professors who are interested in showing the best, or most typical, portions of the works of each man. The purpose of this series, of which these are the eighth, ninth, and tenth numbers, is to divorce the study of American literature from the usual survey according to periods and to consider the work of individuals as contributing toward a whole...