Word: research
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...country is a broad foundation for the technical or professional class, and the School of Business needs as broad a foundation as we are coming to demand for other professional schools. Thirdly, a purely undergraduate school of business excludes the possibility of any pronounced extension of the graduate or research courses, which are coming to be as important in applied economics as they are in pure economics. A four-years' undergraduate curriculum in business courses virtually exhausts the subject and leaves practically nothing for the research student. It was largely for these reasons that the Wharton School type was discarded...
...based upon an erroneous pedagogical principle. President Eliot, by pulling up, as he thought, the American college, to a higher or university level, advanced the age of graduation to about twenty-two, and at the same time made the attainment of the college degree a prerequisite to professional or research work. The college thus came to occupy the contradictory position of a university and of something less than a university. The consequences soon disclosed themselves. As soon as the demands of the public for a better medical and legal preparation became imperious, the complications began; for the medical school course...
...branches of activity all cannot be touched upon in a report of this scope and nature. Silence must not be considered as criticism. Of the purely clinical departments, we think that of Pediatrics deserving of very high praise. The amount and quality of work here, both in teaching and research, is quite out of proportion to its cost. Nineteen teachers are on the roll of the Department. Nearly half of these serve entirely without pay. Such self-denial on the part of the teachers cannot be always counted on, and we hope that in the near future...
...student has gone the round of these six stations and worked in each plant under the direction of the professor who is permanently located there, he will round out his chemical studies by further investigations in Boston. An important feature of the plan is that each station maintains a research laboratory where men who have graduated from the course or other competent chemists will pursue investigations on problems presented by the particular industry where the station is. It is the bringing of the school into the industry and of the industry into the school that is the striking feature...
Also Fulton Cutting '09, Fellow for Research in Physics; Robert Van Arsdale Norris, Lecturer on Coal Mining; Warren Milton Persons, Exchange Lecturer on Economics from Colorado College, first half 1916-17; James Hardy Ropes '89, Exchange Professor to the West for the second half 1916-17; Roland Cotton Smith, William Belden Noble Lecturer...