Word: research
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Assistant Professor T. W. Richards, of the Department of Chemistry, was offered this summer a full professorship at the University of Gottingen, with a new laboratory built for his use. The position was perhaps the best ever offered from abroad to an American chemist, involving purely research work, with no class-room duties. Professor Richards, however, declined to leave Harvard...
...Thereupon the Medical Faculty caused to be prepared by skilful architects a drawing of the buildings they really wanted and could use in biological research and the teaching of medicine. This group of buildings was large. There were five buildings, outside the powerhouse; five large buildings. the enthusiastic committee representing the faculty, the leaders of whom were Dr. Henry P. Bowditch and Dr. J. Collins Warren, proceeded to get estimates on all these buildings, and for the grading of the ground in order to place them rightly...
...announcement of the courses of instruction for 1901-02 offered by the Faculty of Arts and Sciences has just been issued. Four hundred and five courses and half-courses, exclusive of summer, seminary and research courses, are offered. The absence next year of some of the professors has necessitated the omission of several courses. Some new courses of interest are offered, particularly in the English, Classical and Romance departments. The following changes are of the most interest...
...Harvard, its aims, its equipment and its needs. The work is suffering, the writer says, from the lack of a building devoted exclusively to the philosophical department--a building in which all the philosophical classes, now scattered through the different recitation halls, and all the classes in psychological research, now cramped in inadequate laboratories in Dane Hall, might be brought together. "Such a home," Professor Munsterberg writes, "would give us first, of course, the room and the external opportunities for work on every plane; it would give us also the dignity and the repose, the unity and comradeship...
...pottery vessel, probably between four and five hundred years old, has just been presented to the Peabody Museum by Clarence B. Moore '73, of Philadelphia, a man prominent in archaeological research. The vessel, which is carefully modelled and chased, was found in an aboriginal cemetery near Point Washington, Choctawhatchee Bay, Florida. Under it was a skull, with the tip of the chin just projecting through a break in the vessel. The skull, showing the receding forehead of the North American Indian, is included in the gift...