Word: research
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Agreement provides, in general, that the University and Technology 'shall co-operate in the conduct of courses leading to degrees in Mechanical, Electrical, Civil and Sanitary Engineering, Mining and Metallurgy and in the promotion of research in those branches of applied science,' and that the work shall be conducted in the new Technology buildings in Cambridge. To these purposes Harvard will devote not less than three-fifths of the net income of the Gordon McKay Endowment and all of the net income from funds now credited to the Lawrence Scientific School. The Institute will devote the principal and income...
...start should be made while the Latin professors, who have in the past looked to Europe for fresh ideas and for visiting lectureships, are still unaccustomed to the conditions caused by the war, and are not settled in their present necessity of staying at home for all of their research work...
Friends of special interest activities in the University will be glad to note the recrudescence of the Wireless Club. This time the organization has struck a vein of new enthusiasm for radio telegraphy; it has the support of research students at the Cruft Laboratory, is to become a member of the American Radio Relay League, and to do some actual experimental work in the receiving and sending of messages. If successful, the Wireless Club will present a worthy example of what can be done in developing serious interests on undergraduate initiative...
...intricate developments of commerce, a man, to be successful, is forced to fit himself for a special branch of business. After the first year's work in required subjects essential for the understanding of any branch of this many-sided profession, the second year is devoted to scientific research in a specialized field...
...made a standing agreement to take two of the School's graduates of high standing each year, and give them positions either in New York or in their South American branches. Many New England firms have been only too glad to offer their plants as laboratories for the research work of second-year men. Other firms, alive to the superiority of Business School graduates over the ordinary college graduate, are willing to give men good positions on the recommendation of the Business School...