Word: research
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Compared with the provisions for scientific research in countries like France and Germany, ours are pitifully meagre. The energy of our colleges and universities is primarily directed to increasing the number of students, buildings and degrees conferred. The professors are so loaded up with the routine teaching and such an unconscionable amount of administrative work, that he who would engage in genuine scientific research must do so by stealth and at the expense of his health. Nor do we provide many incentives for that kind of work. The public reward and recognition extended to technologic promoters...
...Graduate Schools Society will hold an open meeting in Phillips Brooks House next Tuesday at 7 o'clock. Dr. J. H. Hyslop, formerly professor of logic and ethics at Columbia University, will speak on "The Evidence for Immortality From Psychical Research." The meeting will be open to all graduate students and their wives...
...best colleges of the United States, are producing only a little over half of the children necessary to perpetuate their type, and that this figure has been constantly on the decrease. J. C. Phillips '99, in the Graduates' Magazine, gives the data which prove these facts. His research covers the classes from 1853 to 1890, after which the figures are incomplete...
Boylston and T. Jefferson Coolidge chemical laboratories from 8.30 to 5 o'clock for the use of research students...
...When the telegram of The Fatherland arrived, asking for a holiday greeting as a contribution to the Christmas number, I was sitting in my psychological laboratory with a group of students engaged in a complicated psychological research. We were just experimenting on some subtle functions of the human memory, studying the conditions under which man remembers and forgets. Some of the results were very queer. We found that the mind does not hold or lose its memory ideas in a mechanical way, but that everything depends upon purposes; ideas which are gathered with a certain aim quickly fade away when...