Word: use
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...considerable portion of the discussion was concentrated upon the case method of teaching. While the interest was keen and widespread, it was forcefully brought to our attention that this case material is not available in sufficient quantities or in the ideal form for use in teaching in other schools. Our own instructors have access to much more of this material than is now available to others, and are frequently able to obtain supplementary facts on cases under discussion which others cannot so conveniently obtain...
...insulin are not permanently injurious. Yet a certain death definitely due to insulin over-dosage has frightened many persons. Quacks and some commercial biological chemists have misled slow-wits by exploiting substitutes. Some physicians have reported poor results from the true product because they had not learned its proper use. (Reported by Dr. John Ralston Williams of Rochester, N. Y., after four years' verification...
This astounding mechanism?the Fiske Reading Machine?consists of a small spring-tongs on which are mounted a lens for one eye, a shield for the other and a rack to hold reading matter?really a very simple contrivance, something like a, stereoscope, except that you use one eye instead of two, and the lens is a more powerful magnifier. But the important part of this invention is not the mechanism but the use. For it will, asserted the Admiral, "render printing presses and typesetting machinery obsolete," "revolutionize the publishing industry," "make glasses unnecessary." By its help books will...
...early experiments with the principle, both eyes were used in reading. I found however, that only one was necessary and, indeed, that the use of but one had many advantages. Two eyes are needed to determine distances, but the finest work by the human eye in using astronomical telescopes, microscopes and range finders is done with one eye exclusively...
...remain no larger than two hundred and fifty in enrollment, a desire, which, as is now rather well known, those who drafted the Harvard report possess. Furthermore, he suggests that the college must be near a large city or university whose laboratories and libraries it can use. The idea of dividing Harvard into small colleges has in its favor this very fact: that the university does possess adequate facilities for the work of each particular college, so that the small college has the advantage both of its own size and the size of its parent university...