Word: unis
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Colonel-General Henderson has shown remarkable executive ability in developing the Air Mail service. And he is able, too, to stir up public interest in the work of his department. The microphone has no terrors for him. Broad casting under the auspices of the Aeronautics Department of New York Uni versity, he gave last week as chatty and graphic a talk as the wireless has ever carried to listening thousands. "I predict air transportation at a cost of less than 30c a ton mile. I predict a Nation-wide connecting-up of all important commercial and industrial cen tres with...
This brilliant experiment in informing the public of the existence and na ture of foreign affairs deserved imitation. By grace of the Norman Wait Harris Memorial Foundation, the Uni versity of Chicago has established its own Institute of Politics, the first ses ssion of which will be held this Summer. Erroneous despatches in the metropolitan press stated that supporters of the new school had attacked its Williamstown rival as "popular," publicity seeking, insincere...
...Emmett Holt, child specialist, famed author of Care and Feeding of Children, who died in Peking (TIME, Jan. 28) left $25,000 to Columbia Uni-versity to support an annual fellowship for the study of children's diseases. To the Babies' Hospital, Manhattan, he also left...
...power-house generating serious discussion of international affairs. First projected in 1913 by Harry A. Garfield, President of Williams, it became real in 1921. Mr. Baruch guaranteed its expenses for three years. There were 138 members enrolled, most of them over 50 years of age; half of them from uni-versity faculties, the other half lawyers, diplomats, clergymen, journalists, business men, representatives of the Army and Navy. Distinguished men were secured to give lectures open to the public and to lead the Round-Table Conferences for members only...
...core of the book, however, is the scientific study made in the psychological laboratory of the Uni-versity of Wisconsin. Most such investigations are vitiated by faulty methods or factors of interest, suggestion, deprivation, prejudices, etc. Dr. O'Shea and, his colleague, Dr. Clark L. Hull, determined to eliminate these subjective elements, and devised a "control" pipe, containing an electric heating coil. The subjects were given this while blindfolded and were surprised to learn later that they had not been smoking tobacco, but merely drawing in heated air. Seven non-smokers and nine smokers (university students) were tested for three...