Word: surveying
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Courtney Ryley Cooper, onetime newsboy, salesman, marine, circus pressagent, vaudeville actor, star reporter, popular fiction writer and good pal of J. Edgar Hoover, who calls him "the best informed man on crime in the U. S." Author Cooper was merely propositioning women in order to make a first-hand survey of U. S. white slavery. (Sponsors: the F. B. I. and the Post Office Inspection Department...
...intellectual standards, strained budgets, and charges that Harvard "starves" a particular branch of study, result. To offer a solution is far more difficult, for floaters always have and probably always will exist. But certainly it should be possible, through more conscientious Freshman guidance and through the establishment of broader survey courses, to provide those men capable of choosing their best field the information which they need. Broad knowledge of little depth is eminently desirable for most men at the Freshman level, for with certain exceptions, only those Sophomores who have acquired a bowing acquaintance with a large number of fields...
...city dwellers thought so. Possible explanation: city folks hear more about the world's troubles-a reason given by many a police for reg turning to the church. According to the poll, 31% of the people listen to church services on the radio. >In the Survey Graphic, James Henry Leuba, retired Bryn Mawr psychologist, published results of a religious sampling of names in Who's Who in America, grouped as: 1) bankers, 2) other businessmen, 3) lawyers, 4) writers. Psychologist Leuba's conclusions from replies to his statements of belief...
...survey of the oldest living Harvard men shows that those who didn't graduate lived longer than those who did. Edward J. Dunning, who entered with the class of '67 but failed to graduate, wins the diploma for longevity among former students. He was born October...
Eugene has received a temporary appointment to fill Rulon's position during his leave of absence. Rulon will spend a year visiting educational institutions and preparing a survey with recommendations telling what new kinds of tests are needed...