Word: preceptor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...greatest of Canadian doctors was the late William Osier (1849-1919), who taught at McGill. By grading of the Nobel prize the living Canadians who have contributed most to medicine are Frederick Grant Banting, 38, Professor of Medical Research at the Uni-versity of Toronto, and his preceptor, John James Rickard Macleod, 53, Professor of Physiology at the University of Toronto until 1928. Since then Dr. Macleod has returned to his native Scotland to be Regius Professor of Physiology at the University at Aberdeen. They developed insulin...
...high table" which is promised for the Master and tutors. One wonders what place in the social scheme these faculty tables will occupy. Used as a permanent separation in the dining hall the "high table" might, as the CRIMSON has before pointed out, usurp a desirable contact between preceptor and student. But other use of the "high tables" could be made besides one that follows the Oxford-Cambridge idea of segregation of tutors and students. Occasional use of the "high table" as a gathering place of the House resident and non-resident tutors would serve to coordinate the older members...
Harvard neither desires nor is fitted for a wholesale adoption of the English tutorial structure. But in restricting the students' opportunity for a tutorial contact to the guidance of a single preceptor it seems more than likely that she has rejected one of the chief advantages of the older system...
Chemistry's Value. Samuel Wilson Parr, 71, preceptor of the group of brilliant chemists and physicists at the University of Illinois, and president of the chemistry society, opened the meeting with the survey usual at such affairs: "Output of chemical products in this country have advanced in 50 years from an insignificant sum to more than $2,000,000,000 annually at present. . . . This is a chemical age, and we live, move and have our physical being as a result of chemical processes. Whether we travel on foot in chrome-tanned shoes and rayon stockings or roll to work...
Thus it happened that the Nobel "Peace Prize" for 1927 was awarded, last week, to two elderly and little-known "fraternizers among nations": Professor Doktor Ludwig Quidde of the University of Munich, 69; and Professor Ferdinand Buisson, 86, retired, onetime preceptor at the Sorbonne. When the Norwegian Storting (Parliament), which is charged with making the award, announced its decision, last week, a teapot-tempest of press indignation seethed...