For example, The Providence Evening Tribune asserted that "the fad started at Hanover in the room of an ingenious minded Dartmouth student of psychology," whereas The News Sentinel blamed "Boston high school debutantes," and The Pittsburgh Press blamed high school students in New York.
In an ingenious experiment, Dabbs's students tested 12 Brazilian and 9 Italian sports fans both before and after a World Cup soccer match in which Brazil beat Italy.
And in an ingenious experiment in which students were sat at a wooden table and asked identical questions about their health, he found that individuals with a high desire for control were more likely to tap the table and say "touch wood" when interviewed just before sitting exams than students questioned on a normal study day.
But that didn't stop Burns from coming up with an ingenious demonstration to help students understand concepts that are notoriously tricky.
But many problems, even old ones, can be solved by a clever undergraduate or a high-school student equipped with an ingenious idea and the kinds of skills used in a mathematical olympiad.
They found a coherent vision of a student-centred system: an ingenious balancing of the right to set fees and the obligation to share risk, which would have constrained fee levels far more effectively than a crude cap; and a system for financial aid that would have been much simpler and better-targeted than anything else on offer.
Entitled "The best stats you've ever seen", Rosling's talk summarised the results of an ingenious study he had conducted among Swedish university students.
The students were inspired as well by an "ingenious little device by Thomas Edison.
Students and faculty at Johns Hopkins University have devised an ingenious – and very lifelike – simulation that helps doctors deal with birthing room emergencies.
The screen eventually fills, in an ingenious series of what can only be called stage pop-ups, with student bedrooms and typed conversations, and, ultimately, the school itself.
A student living on £100 a month in London has found an ingenious way to fund himself through an MBA course.
