Word: research
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...following appointments were made: Clarence Cook Little '10, Research Fellow in Genetics of the Cancer Commission of Harvard University; Wallace...
...been said of the study of economics, in contrast to the physical sciences, that like philosophy it deals with theory, more or less pedantic, which cannot be put to practical use by the student during the period consumed in its study. The research work of late years exposes the inaccuracy of such a statement. That Harvard has not taken a wholly active part in this field of experiment is due to limited facilities, not to any absence of problems which might be solved...
What practical research work has been performed in economics by the University has, for the most part, fallen under the direction of the Business School rather than of the Economics Department. Though the latter department has edited the Quarterly Journal of Economics since the foundation of that pamphlet by Professor Dunbar, and conducted research into historic fields, the Business School has been in charge of most of the experiments of modern business...
Since politics enter into government research, the other form of investigation, that by individual educational organizations, fulfills a necessary function. To be qualified to enter this field efficiently the Economics Department lacks a prime necessity, some form of endowment. Until it receives financial backing, similar, perhaps, to that of the Physics Department, this comparatively undeveloped branch of the University cannot widen the scope of its research work...
...evil is especially prominent in the Division of History, Government, and Economics; for the theses are more considerable in that division and require more research. While it is undoubtedly true that men can very easily arrange excellent programs which do not overburden them with thesis work in any one year, the lateness in some cases of the fixing of plans for a particular concentration sometimes brings about unfortunate combinations. A man who happens to be taking Economics 2 and 4, together with some history courses requiring thesis work, is inordinately burdened. Yet his late plans for concentration, and his intellectual...