Municipal University Research Articles

The Junior College in Georgia

A wide variety in the origin, purposes, organization, and control exists among these institutions in Georgia. Most of them are two-year units. Among the public junior colleges there are five junior units of the University System of Georgia; one branch state college, maintained as an afternoon program of the Atlanta Division of the University of Georgia; one military college with state and city support; and three municipal colleges, with three entirely different programs and organizations. There are also eight private junior colleges, all church-related.

Physics in Technical Colleges 1—Manchester Municipal College of Technology

The College of Technology is a large six-storey building in the heart of Manchester, and its Physics department occupies parts of the north side of the ground floor and first floor. This is a relatively small part of the building, as might be considered appropriate for a subject such as physics in a college of technology. The tendency, however, is for the department to expand—a reflexion, perhaps, of the increasing part that physics is now taking in technology in the country as a whole.

Ernest Harold Farmer 1890-1952

Ernest Harold Farmer was born at Longford, Derbyshire, on 3 March 1890, and was educated at the Municipal School, Derby, and University College, Nottingham. He studied chemistry under Professor F. S. Kipping, F.R.S., and took his first degree in 1911. His early career gave no indication that he was to become one of the country’s leading research chemists, and on graduation he entered the teaching profession, holding posts successively at Daventry Grammar School and at the Municipal College, Bury, Lancashire. The first world war interrupted his career; he volunteered for active service, and in 1915 was gazetted to the Loyal North Lancashire Regiment, serving with them until his demobilization in 1919. In 1917, at the battle of Messines, he was severely injured, and spent the next two years in hospital and nursing home, while surgeons struggled to save his right arm. Surgical skill, aided by Farmer’s own perseverance and courage, finally gained a substantial victory, but a substantial degree of disability remained throughout his life. The extent of this was realized by few, but it was a fact that when lecturing he found it necessary to wear an elbow support to enable him to raise his arm to write on a blackboard. In view of the delicate experimental work which he carried out, it is hard to realize that he never recovered the full use of his right hand. Incidentally, his writing remained fluent and legible, and it was not unduly difficult to decipher one of his manuscripts, even when it had been subjected to the repeated editing which always resulted from his ceaseless striving for perfection.

THE ASSOCIATION OF SENIOR ENGINEERS OF THE BUREAU OF SHIPS

Journal of the American Society for Naval EngineersVolume 64, Issue 4 p. 869-871 THE ASSOCIATION OF SENIOR ENGINEERS OF THE BUREAU OF SHIPS DAVID J. BARRY, DAVID J. BARRY The Author Early training consisted of five years shipbuilding apprenticeship in Workman, Clark, and Company, Belfast, combined with the regular Naval Architectural Course in the Municipal College of Technology. From 1924 to 1938, he worked on hull design in Newport News S. B. and D. D. Company and Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corporation, Quincy, Massachusetts. From 1938 to date he has been in Civil Service with the Navy, Principal Naval Architect in charge of Design Arrangements until 1948, and since then Head Civilian in the Conversion Design Branch. He is a Registered Professional Engineer, a member of The Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers in addition to holding membership in The American Society of Naval Engineers.Search for more papers by this author DAVID J. BARRY, DAVID J. BARRY The Author Early training consisted of five years shipbuilding apprenticeship in Workman, Clark, and Company, Belfast, combined with the regular Naval Architectural Course in the Municipal College of Technology. From 1924 to 1938, he worked on hull design in Newport News S. B. and D. D. Company and Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corporation, Quincy, Massachusetts. From 1938 to date he has been in Civil Service with the Navy, Principal Naval Architect in charge of Design Arrangements until 1948, and since then Head Civilian in the Conversion Design Branch. He is a Registered Professional Engineer, a member of The Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers in addition to holding membership in The American Society of Naval Engineers.Search for more papers by this author First published: November 1952 https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1559-3584.1952.tb03019.x AboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditWechat Volume64, Issue4November 1952Pages 869-871 RelatedInformation

Psychiatric facilities in Cincinnati.

Preparatory to the meeting of the American Psychiatric Association in Cincinnati in 1940, Dr. Emerson A. North wrote a comprehensive report on the psychiatric facilities in Cincinnati and Ohio. In this report,’ Dr. North discussed in detail the origin and development of the various hospitals, institutions, clinics and agencies, both public and private, concerned with the problems of mental health. In the decade that has elapsed since that report was written, there has been a tremendous upsurge of interest in psychiatry in all civilized countries. Cincinnati has not been laggard in this respect. It has not only expanded its teaching and treatment facilities but it has incorporated in its philosophy the newer concepts that have been introduced into psychiatric thought. This is nicely exemplified in the present setup of the department of Psychiatry of the Medical College of the University of Cincinnati, of which Dr. Maurice Levine has been the director since 1947. Over the years, the department has developed certain specific characteristics that are of general interest. One is that it embodies a workable integration of a number of participating institutions and groups. It is a division of the College of Medicine of the municipal University of Cincinnati; a large part of its outpatient work is organized as the Central Clinic of the Community Chest; its wards are a division of the municipal General Hospital, and the hospital houses the Central Clinic outpatient service. Most of the activities of the department can be visualized in terms of the integration of these 3 major responsible groups, the Medical School, the General Hospital, and the Community Chest. Further, one of its activities, the Child Guidance Home, is a joint project of the Medical School, the Community Chest, and the Jewish Hospital, and is housed in a homelike building on the grounds of the Jewish Hospital. Another of its subdivisions, industrial psychiatry, is

The Dynamics of Democracy in the New York City Municipal Colleges

The Dynamics of Democracy in the New York City Municipal Colleges

Report of the International Commission for the Study of Fats, Municipal University, Amsterdam, September 5–10, 1949

Journal of the American Oil Chemists' SocietyVolume 26, Issue 12 p. 692-692 Article Report of the International Commission for the Study of Fats, Municipal University, Amsterdam, September 5–10, 1949 First published: 01 December 1949 https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02903174AboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditWechat No abstract is available for this article. Volume26, Issue12December 1949Pages 692-692 RelatedInformation

Integration of Humanities and Social Studies

HoW can the humanities and the social studies be integrated in a college curriculum? Throughout the United States, administrators and teachers, interested in advancing the cause of general education, are working out varied solutions to this problem.' Taken together, these educational adventures constitute a significant trend in higher education. No two of these efforts are alike, for each has an individuality and originality of its own, depending upon the need of the particular institution or the scholastic background of the staff directing the project. The movement for integration has, however, been in progress long enough to permit the observation of certain trends concerning the extent to which integration has been carried out, the levels of the curriculum to which this policy has been applied, the methods of presentation, the reading materials employed, and the administration of such courses. In this study the humanities are considered as including literature, art, and music; and the social studies as embracing history, economics, government, sociology, anthropology, psychology, and geography; religion and philosophy are regarded as belonging to both groups. There is considerable variation in the extent to which integration is carried out. Some institutions limit their efforts to bringing related subjects either into a separate humanities or into a distinct social-studies sequence, making no effort to combine these two groups into a single unit. Other institutions merge the humanities and the social studies into a single sequence. One institution fuses humanities and social studies with the physical sciences. An illustration of integration within the humanities and within the social studies is to be found at Columbia University. The first year of the humanities sequence is a great books course covering a number of figures in world literature, from Homer to Goethe. In the second year a semester in the history and appreciation of music is followed by a semester in fine arts. As far back as I9I9, Columbia University began its contemporary civilization course, which was probably the pioneer effort at integration within the social studies. The first year of this course also treats 'This article presents some of the results of a study undertaken by the author as chairman of a committee on curricular integration for the New York Municipal Colleges. For this study, syllabuses and outlines in the humanities and social studies were analyzed, and additional information was obtained through correspondence.

High Lift Devices and their Uses

The 778th Lecture to be read before the Royal Aeronautical Society (the second main Society Lecture to be given at a Branch centre) was read under the auspices of the Portsmouth Branch, at the Portsmouth Municipal College, on 21st April 1949, by R. R. Duddy, B.Sc., A.F.R.Ae.S., on “ High Lift Devices and their Uses.” Sir John Buchanan, President-Elect of the Society, presided over the meeting with Mr. E. C. Green, Chairman of the Portsmouth Branch.

Men, Managers and Machines

IN his monograph "Scientific Management" (Monographs on Higher Management, No. 9, Department of Industrial Administration, Manchester Municipal College of Technology ; May 1948), Mr. G. Chelioti urges that the essence of management is the art of getting things done through the agency of other human beings, and that management itself is incapable of becoming a science. He regards science as the foundation and the provider of the tools of industry, and the technician as the primary seryant of science in industry ; but he points out that the technician cannot manage human beings by means of his technology and that the manager dealing with a technical problem becomes a technologist for the time being. In urging this clear separation of the two functions of dealing with human beings and with technical problems or machines, Mr. Chelioti maintains that the undue domination of industry in the nineteenth century by the new element of modern technology, and the failure to regard industry as the servant of humanity and to consider sufficiently the human beings employed, was responsible for the revolt of the human spirit against subordination to the machine which we are still experiencing in spite of a more enlightened managerial outlook. Mr. Chelioti also reminds us that the current attitude of society was at least as much responsible for the revolt as the contemporary employers or managers, and his words should be carefully weighed in the discussion of the question of human relations in industry to-day.

Engineering Metrology

A FULL-TIME postgraduate course in engineering metrology (technical measurement), extending over one apetaemic year, is being started this year as a permanent feature in the courses provided at the Manchester Municipal College of Technology. The course will deal with the science and practice of measurement in relation to Engineering products and the machine tools employed in production, and to industrial and scientific research. In addition to the subject of metrology, other aspects of engineering will be dealt with in the course, and facilities for research will be provided. This course, which is the first of its kind in Great Britain, represents an initial step towards solving the problems whereby the accumulated store of engineering knowledge can be passed on to the newcomers in the engineering industries and professions. Candidates for admission to the course must be of postgraduate standing. In the first year the number of admissions will be limited to a maximum of about twelve. Further information may be obtained from the Principal, College of Technology, Manchester, 1.

The Netherlands

As described in a previous letter, scientific research, as well as most other research activity in Holland, is concentrated at the public universities. Student fees defray part of the expenses of these universities but at least three quarters of their expenses are met from public funds. These funds are allocated by Parliament on the proposal of the Minister of Education and, in the case of the Municipal University of Amsterdam, by the City Council on the proposal of the alderman concerned. Of course the Minister of Education and the alderman depend on the advice of the university authorities on details, and this advice is usually followed.

Netherlands

The international physics meeting in Holland in July 1948 may attract a considerable number of physicists, and in view of this it seems worthwhile to sketch the organization of research in physics in that country. Fundamental research is centered in the laboratories of the three state universities at Leyden, Utrecht, and Groningen, and in the municipal university at Amsterdam.

Graduation Prospects of an Entering Freshman

The Coudert Legislative Investigation into educational administration in New York City revealed that in normal times higher education is avail able to first quartile and in many instances to only first quintile of graduating classes of City's academic high schools.1 As further evi dence of aptitude for college success of these students this report stated that the typical student who entered four colleges under consideration surpassed almost seventy-five per cent of freshmen in 318 colleges which reported results on tests that year.2 The tests referred to were 1940-1941 American Council on Education Psychological Examinations. Recognizing that nature and extent of student losses are among measures of efficiency of an institution, Hunter College, one of four municipal colleges discussed in report, is legitimately concerned with finding an answer to question: Why is there a relatively heavy student mortality when admission is highly selective ?

A follow‐up study of Oklahoma municipal junior‐college graduates into later educational work and into occupational careers

In this follow-up study it is proposed: (1) to follow the students, inquiring into whether they continue their education beyond junior college, and, if so, where and what success they have had or have attained, and (2) to follow their occupational careers in an endeavor to relate their educational training to their life experiences. In obtaining the data for this study the name and addresses of graduates over a period from 1932 to 1940, inclusive, were obtained from ten fairly representative municipal junior colleges in Oklahoma. The colleges from which the information was obtained were selected on the basis of size, location, curricular offerings, and interests so as to give as fair a sampling as possible of the eighteen colleges under consideration.

Coordinating Program of Health, Hospital, and Medical School in a Municipal University

Coordinating Program of Health, Hospital, and Medical School in a Municipal University

A Citadel Glossary

T HE CADET vernacular at The Citadel, the Military College of South Carolina, exhibits several features of interest. These features-derived partly from the location of the institution, partly from its traditions, partly from its organization and routine-combine to flavor the usual collegiate metaphorical language with traces of sectional dialect, class dialect, technical jargon, and prison argot.' The Citadel is located in Charleston, but cadets from Charleston and other parts of the coastal plain are in a minority. Old Charleston families usually send their sons to a local municipal college;2 also the great majority of the white population of South Carolina, supporters of the Citadel, is found in the Piedmont region, traditionally hostile to Charleston. Therefore 'the average cadet,' outside the college grounds, finds himself a stranger in a somewhat unfriendly environment. This situation is reflected in cadet speech in the many terms of disapprobation for the 'low-country' inhabitants and their speech; in contrast, the Charleston cadets have only the hackneyed term hillbilly for their 'up-country' classmates, and no cadet term for the up-country dialect has been noted. Cadet speech is affected in two ways by the organization of the cadet corps as a regiment and the requirement that all cadets participate fully in the military routine, including the four-year course in Military Science and Tactics: first, in the everyday use of such distinctly 'learned' words as commandant, azimuth, and amanuensis; secondly, in the prevalence of such 'bureaucratic abbreviations' (a type first introduced to the American layman by Russian correspondents and then naturalized by the expansion of the New Deal) as A.W.O.L., P.M.S. & T., and N.C.O.I.C.O.Q. The frequency of these official abbreviations doubtless made easier the creation of such cadet coinages as A.K., H.A., and O.A.O. Since many offenses are possible against an elaborate system of military routine, and since all such offenses are punishable by demerits, restriction, confinements, or tours (all involving varying degrees of unpleasantness for the offender), a sort of prison psychology is inevitable in the cadet

Institute of Brewing Researches

SIR GILBERT MORGAN, director of chemical research in the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research, has been appointed chairman of the Research Fund Committee of the Institute of Brewing. For many years the Institute has been carrying out researches covering a wide range chiefly in connexion with the raw materials of brewing, namely, barley, hops and yeast, which have been carried out in collaboration with numerous experts and with the following institutions, namely, East Mailing Research Station (East Mailing), Imperial Council for Agricultural Research (India), Municipal College of Technology (Manchester), National Institute of Agricultural Botany (Cambridge), Rotham-sted Experimental Station (Harpenden), South-Eastern Agricultural College (Wye) ; and in the University of Birmingham. The offices of the Institute are at Brewers' Hall, Addle Street, London, E.C.2. It will be recalled that Sir Gilbert's impending retirement from his post under the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research was recently announced (see NATURE, July 30, p. 200).

MATHEMATICAL MAGIC

School Science and MathematicsVolume 37, Issue 8 p. 919-919 MATHEMATICAL MAGIC Cecil B. Read, Cecil B. Read Municipal University of Wichita, Wichita, KansasSearch for more papers by this author Cecil B. Read, Cecil B. Read Municipal University of Wichita, Wichita, KansasSearch for more papers by this author First published: November 1937 https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1949-8594.1937.tb14275.xAboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditWechat No abstract is available for this article. Volume37, Issue8November 1937Pages 919-919 RelatedInformation

MATHEMATICAL MAGIC

School Science and MathematicsVolume 37, Issue 5 p. 597-597 MATHEMATICAL MAGIC Cecil B. Read, Cecil B. Read Municipal University of Wichita, Wichita, KansasSearch for more papers by this author Cecil B. Read, Cecil B. Read Municipal University of Wichita, Wichita, KansasSearch for more papers by this author First published: May 1937 https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1949-8594.1937.tb11297.xAboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditWechat No abstract is available for this article. Volume37, Issue5May 1937Pages 597-597 RelatedInformation