Word: surveying
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...adopted a new slogan: ". . . To abolish the profit system in order to develop a classless society based upon the obligation of mutual service." Vigilantly antiFascist, the Federation gets out a monthly bulletin on "Social Questions" which is widely circulated in Methodist areas. Last month's bulletin contained a survey of the New Deal by Dr. Harry F. Ward, theology professor at Union Theological Seminary. He charged that President Roosevelt's program "tends to lower the American standard of living, creates an artificial scarcity, and works top-heavily in favor of big businessmen and bankers." Declaring that...
...Harvard Divinity School, as a member of the Conference of Theological Seminaries of the United States and Canada, has been sharing in a survey of the Protestant ministry in the United States. The statistical investigation has been conducted by The Institute of Social and Religious Research, and its findings, in four volumes recently published, placed at the disposal of American Divinity Schools...
...period, as Professor Haring describes it, is so twisted a maze of civil warfare and international dispute that condensation of the story has been very difficult. Wisely the author has confined himself to a survey of only the more important nations, such as the A B C powers, with more detailed investigations into such major issues as the control of the Rio de in Plat and the balance of power on the Pacific coast...
...Samuel Drury, delivering the Inglis lecture on Secondary Education Wednesday night, stated that "the size of classes has no relation to the effectiveness of teaching." He supported this statement by citing a survey recently completed at the University of Minnesota. Such a view must be based on the belief that the chief function of education is to provide students with a complement of facts, for it is difficult to conceive a satisfactory scientific method of testing its less tangible results...
Using the results of the University of Minnesota survey which have proved this statement, Dr. Drury said, "We cannot, therefore, allow ourselves to believe that the larger classes in public schools are less fruitful than the smaller c lasses in private schools...