Word: problems
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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There is reason to hope for a speedy solution of this problem, which has been an absolute block to business-like plans of expenditure...
...series of what may be termed unit actions, such as pulverizing, heating, roasting, condensing, precipitating, crystallizing, filtering, dissolving, electrolyzing, and so on. The number of these basic unit operations is not very large. The student who understands all these unit actions is in a position to attack any chemical problem...
...considerable importance to the collegiate world. It indicates that large business houses are finding it both practicable and profitable to co-operate with the colleges in order to obtain the best men available for their positions, and for the undergraduate it is another step toward simplifying the "after graduation" problem. It also will enable a man to discover his aptitude or inaptitude for this or that position by giving him practical experience before he actually makes his decision...
...have been sometimes a misunderstanding of the committee's attitude and of the effect of reporting students. Nevertheless, efforts to secure co-operation have produced increasingly good results. By meeting the professors, together with their assistants, in several of the larger courses, and by discussing with them the general problem, the secretary has made reasonably sure that few undergraduates will in the long run escape finding themselves in at least one course in which the use of bad English is likely to be reported. Many instructors, moreover, pay attention to the English of their students without sending them...
...Physical Colloquium. "The Dynamical Theory of Crystal Gratings and its Application to the Problem of Specific Heats," by Mr. E. C. Kemble in Room 3, Jefferson Physical Laboratory...