Word: experimentally
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Up to this year, these students would have been certain of House residence, but they were chosen as guinea pigs for a new and needed experiment. The Housemasters had decided to give each House a section of floor of its own in Claverly, and to fill the building with a...
In the chill of the desert dawn, a weird airplane, painted as white as a new refrigerator, was wheeled out of a hangar at Edwards Air Force Base, California, and towed at funeral-slow speed toward the level, eight-mile runway of Muroc Dry Lake. The plane was the Douglas...
The history of public health at Harvard goes back to 1913 when the school originated as an experiment called The School of Public Health Officers of Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. President Lowell of Harvard had long nurtured an interest in preventive medicine. When the time was...
It flourished so well for eight years that by 1920 the Administrative Board reported that it was "in its eighth year of successful operation and . . . no longer an experiment." They felt a real need had successfully been met and suggested extension of the work.
Many instructors arrive with the understanding that they must support themselves and their departments by securing grants from outside sources. Worry over how their work is going to be done, and whether industries will be in a generous mood to assist them next year haunts these professors. It cuts into...