Word: research
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Physics in the University is carried on in two buildings, the Jefferson Physical Laboratory and the Cruft Laboratory. The older building, which forms the subject of this notice, is devoted to the study of general physics both elementary and advanced, the newer is intended for advanced instruction and research in the special fields of high frequency electric currents...
...main building. The whole equipment is as good as any in this country. It is at present employed in a study of the relation of the Zeeman effect to spectral series. The central portion of the basement is devoted to storage and to a number of small research rooms used by Professor Davis and his students. The southwestern part of the same level is occupied by an optical laboratory. In the northwestern portion, Professor Bridgman carries on his well-known researches on phenomena at high pressures. In a vault under the western end of the building, Professor Sabine conducts those...
...Cruft Laboratory, which was finished over a year ago, filled a great need for a place of physical research and with its new apparatus is especially adapted for electrical experiments. Plans are now under way for the construction of a storage battery of 100,000 volts. The jars have been purchased, and bids have been received for the other materials, but the actual construction has not yet begun...
Another opportunity is placed in our hands by the recent finds of papyri in Egypt and by the wonderful achievements of archaeological research. The recovery of certain works of Sappho, Sophocles, and Menander enables us to sketch more clearly periods and figures of literature that were somewhat obscure to our ancestors. Who knows what may yet await the student, perchance at Herculaneum, if he is far-sighted enough to prepare himself for future prospects by labor with the Classics that we have? The great archaeological conquests of the last fifty years, when used with caution, permit us to re-create...
Several graduates of Harvard have already become famous on the field of education in the United States. Among them are Dr. W. T. Foster, president of Reed College, Portland, Oregon; Dr. E. O. Swisson, Commissioner of Education in Idaho; Dr. F. W. Ballou, Director of Educational Research for Boston city schools; and Dr. W. S. Learned, who is connected with the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching in New York...