Word: surveying
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...survey was financed by the Siamese government as a supplement to the study of Siam made in 1931 by Carle C. Zimmerman, associate professor of Sociology. Working with a staff of Siamese appointed by the government, Mr. Andrews made a thorough study of the Siamese people and of all phases of their life throughout the kingdom, in order to learn how Siamese initiative may be applied to the problem of commercial development...
...survey also shows that Siam has largely recovered from the financial depression, the national income is stabilized and very nearly adjusted to expenditures, and the country is ready for a period of commercial expansion. Although the depression has lowered the standard of living in many parts of the country, it is found that because of the agricultural nature of the kingdom the people have suffered none of the hardships common during the depression in more commercial countries...
...record breaking time of four months, has little chance to wander from the job cataloguing masterpieces. No attempt is made to explain the technique of criticism. In grasping the meaning of a kaleidoscopic mas of material the student is left entirely to his own devices. A totally didactic survey, the course can hardly hope to supply an ideal basis for enjoying...
...disturbed by the condition of U. S. medical schools and by the laxity of state licensing requirements that it founded a Council on Medical Education & Hospitals, installed the late Dr. Nathan Porter Colwell as secretary. That year Dr. Colwell went to the Carnegie Foundation, asked that a lay survey of the nation's medical schools be made and its findings published. The Carnegie Foundation chose for the job a brilliant young educator named Abraham Flexner, who had ceased teaching in Louisville high schools to earn a Harvard M. A. With Dr. Colwell, Abraham Flexner visited U. S. medical schools...
...covering the art of western Europe from Early Christian to modern. Also, there is Fine Arts 1c, which is a similar history of ancient art; and Fine Arts 1a, which cuts out our future bank president because it requires an ability to draw. To the student who wants a survey of European art, there is no selection...