Word: research
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...rare for a research worker of the first rank to be also a real teacher of his subject. It is even rarer for such a man to prove that he is not a mere cultured ornament of a practical world but a strong support in time of need. Professor Sabine was all three. Science remembers him for his studies in acoustics. The men of the University hold him dear for those hours in Jefferson when notes and books were forgotten as "sound ghosts" and electric discharges were made real by a man who had explored all their wonders...
Professor Sabine, who died yesterday at the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital after a surgical operation, came to Harvard as a graduate student in 1887. His exceptional ability was immediately recognized by Professor John Trowbridge, who soon took him as an associate in research, and not long afterward enlisted him as a teacher in one of our laboratory courses...
...several years Sabine was so much engrossed in teaching and in giving informal guidance to promising students, who came to him by a sort of inevitable attraction, that he found little time for further work of research. But the building of the Fogg Museum started him on a career of investigation and invention which has been unique...
...life, and achievements that individual and fearless spirit which Harvard University aims to foster. He was a graduate of many colleges--a law student at Columbia, honored with degrees by a host of universities in many lands, and well educated in the graduate school of practical life, and the research course of public affairs...
Others who have received promotions are Colonel Harvey Cushing '95, consulting surgeon and formerly head of Base Hospital No. 5; Lieutenant-Colonel W. B. Cameron, attached to the research department of the Army Central Laboratories at Dijon; Lieutenant-Colonel R. C. Cabot '90, member of the staff of Massachusetts General Base Hospital No. 6 stationed at Bordeaux; and Lieutenant-Colonel R. P. Strong, chairman of the Committee on Trench Fever, whose work in this connection was one of the great medical contributions of the war. Colonel Strong is now detached from the Army and has succeeded Colonel Alexander Lambert...