Word: teaching
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...advance their fortunes in the world must be masters of the manly art of self-expression, especially on paper. A literary stammerer is as helpless in Harvard College as is the tongue-tied man in the advertisements when called upon for a speech, and the CRIMSON editorial competition will teach writing better than either English A or any correspondence school you ever...
...Stratton, assistant professor of Finance is coming back from Pittsburg where he has been on leave of absence for a year while he studied the effect of the NRA code on the steel industry. Ross G. Walker will also be back after an absence of five years. He will teach accounting...
...latter is used to teach men how to swim since that is one of the requirements for a degree. The larger pool is believed to be the fastest in the country and was the scene of many records last spring when the N. C. A. A. meet was held there. The water in both pools is kept at a constant temperature of 72 degrees...
...Seattle last week Dr. Stevenson Smith, University of Washington psychology professor, delighted colleagues and students by showing them a complicated "mechanical rat" which he and a helper had worked five years to perfect. Living rats, especially white ones, are favorites with animal psychologists who teach them to traverse complex mazes bristling with blind alleys, studying the effect on maze-learning of food, light, electric shock, drugs, blasts...
Stanchly protecting his men from demands that they do "something practical," famed Willis Rodney Whitney, longtime (1900-32) head of General Electric Co.'s research laboratories at Schenectady, N. Y., used to say: "I would rather teach than be President." His tradition of free inquiry continues. Consequently by no means all the bulletins that emanate from Schenectady have to do with straightforward improvements in electrical equipment. Lately GE announced a garbage-grinder which would simplify removal of "kitchen waste" by flushing it, chopped fine, down the sink drain. Even farther removed from the usual run of industrial research...