Word: research
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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From explorations in Central America a number of casts of sculptures and hieroglyphs and an extensive report, illustrated by photographs, have been received. The fourth annual expedition to New York State yielded a good collection of implements, ornaments, pottery, and skeletons from an ancient Iroquois site. In the research work of Mr. Ernest Volk in the glacial deposits near Trenton, N. J., several paleolithic implements were found and additional geological facts were obtained in confirmation of the antiquity of man in the Delaware Valley. The report describes the expedition to South America and acknowledges the courtesies extended by the Peruvian...
...whole field; to teach some of the technique of dealing with needy persons and of neighborhood work; and to give an abiding conviction of the interdependence of such technique and the more general methods for neighborhood and civic work. In Harvard University the school is a double course in research in the department of social ethics, and may be taken by regular or by special students. Applicants for admission must show that they will probably profit by the opportunities offered. The course is one academic year. Social Ethics 2, a second-half-year course, given at Cambridge, is planned...
...essential point in the general scheme of education here represented that each instructor shall devote part of the day to his own private scientific investigation and shall thus come to his classes with the enthusiasm of a worker as well as the authority of a teacher--and for the research work of advanced students devoting themselves to special forms of investigation...
...that he serve the subsequent year in the Mallinckrodt Chemical works at a suitable salary. The student must have taken at least Chemistry 5, 6, 9, and 10, and must take or have taken Chemistry 11. Preference will be given to a man wishing a broad theoretical training in research as a foundation for the subsequent practice of technical chemistry, and only students of unusual ability will be considered. It is understood that the holder of this stipend will do no other work, such as tutoring, or proctoring in examinations; but a laboratory assistant may receive a part...
...recent meeting of the Resident Executive Board it was voted that the fee for a laboratory course "primarily for graduates" or "for undergraduates and graduates," or for a course of research, should be computed at the rate of $45 for a full course, and $25 for a half-course. This will be the fee only for as many laboratory courses as represent the amount of time devoted to the subject by the student. In estimating this amount of time it will be assumed that all of the student's working time not devoted to other specified and accepted courses...