Word: surveying
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...revolutionary change in the classification of types of work to be done by patrolmen" constitutes the crucial recommendation for the improvement of the Boston police department made by the Harvard Crime Survey in its volume, "Police Administration in Boston," which is published by the Harvard University Press this week. The book is the work of Leonard V. Harrison, of New York, N. Y., a police expert of many years standing...
...survey regards the improvement of personnel as the foundation for better policing and states that this should be brought about by increased salaries, to attract men of superior talents, improvement and extension of training, and the creation of a personnel unit under the supervision of a deputy commissioner responsible for the selection and training of recruits and management of matters of personnel to supplant the present Civil Service Commission...
...survey further criticizes the Civil Service Commission on the ground that prior experience is not as important as the Commission believes and that an examination of the character of the applicants is more important than the arrest records and answers to the practical questions which are learned from the Civil Service Commission, however, would review the methods of examination and guard against favoritism and political influence, while the police department itself would test the intelligence, temperament, character and physical fitness of the applicants...
...such a collection of voices continues to be made annually, its value as material for research in the science of speech will grow inestimably, according to Professor Packard. If records are taken for both Freshman and Senior years, a survey can be made to show whether the so-called "Harvard accent" is actually acquired at the college, or whether it is merely a prep school affectation. The different accents from the middle west, from Boston, from New York, can all be exactly determined and the difference noted. Also the various lads of speaking and current slang expressions will be amusing...
...balloonists Dr. Compton and others learned that cosmic ray intensity varies with latitude, and Dr. T. H. Johnson of the Bartol Foundation demonstrated that more rays come from the west than from the east. Hinting his disillusionment with manned balloons, Dr. Compton has begun a mountaintop and sounding-balloon survey. Dr. Millikan, in the current Physical Review, has kind words to say for the Settle-Fordney flight. In his article he reproduces a strip of film from the automatic electroscope aboard the Settle-Fordney balloon, one of the few real trophies ever brought down from stratonauts' stunts aloft...