Final Report of the Committee on Scientific Problems of Human Migration Report and Circular Series of the National Research Council (1929) / Chapter Skim
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The Program: List of Topics and Principal Investigators
The Program: List of Topics and Principal Investigators
Pages 9-14
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Since the three years set as a limit to its work would be reached the following June, the duties of the new Chairman were largely to attend to the routine business of the office and to prepare the final report for submission to the Division of Anthropology and Psychology of the National Research Council. THE PROGRAM During the years I923-I926, sixteen projects were supported in whole or in part.
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Under the direction of Doctor Raymond Pearl at the Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health.
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The anthropological projects in a similar manner dealt with anatomical characters, and although the sociological projects were not strictly comparable, they were directed toward the ultimate comparisons of migrating groups; so that, with two possible exceptions, all twelve projects were aimed at the comparative study of migrant groups. They were SAG fundamental in that basic biological functions were the chief points of attack.
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The Committee, having at the outset decided to promote the investigation of fundamental rather than immediate problems in migration, it was inevitable that any specific investigation should bear upon many aspects of the human problem as well as upon migration, and that, in consequence, the program might appear to have lost sight of the Committee's chosen objective. As previously stated, the Committee believed that the three years they might reasonably be expected to function would only suffice to initiate kinds of investigation that promised a clear view of the relative importance of the several proposed approaches to the complex phenomena of migration, and to start the development of such techniques and appliances as might prove of service in future investigations.
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The alternative policy of the Committee would have been to accept existing methods of measuring mental traits, performance, and aptitudes as the best available, and to have proceeded to an immediate rating of migrating groups; a job that could have been well organized and carried through in a way similar to the work of the personnel division of the Army; however, the Committee rejected this alternative as the least · . promlslng.
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In later consideration of the social science side of the problem of human migration, the Executive Board of the National Research Council declined to approve the taking on of obligations in the field of the social sciences, on the ground that the National Academy of Sciences, under whose auspices the National Research Council operates, does not concern itself with the social sciences, and was not, therefore, prepared to assume responsibility for investigations in this field. Because of this decision, the Committee could not consider new projects in the social and economic aspects of their problem.
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