Word: research
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...many instances, however, assistants --although men of scholarly promise--are appointed rather for their high records than for their ability to instruct. The tendency is to treat assistantships merely as graduate scholarships, given to aid men who are doing research work for higher degrees; and the professor is more concerned with the progress of that research work than with the teaching which the assistant does...
...found in the north room of the library. There is also a very interesting and growing collection of books by Harvard men; and there are more books which are prescribed in courses than is generally realized. The volumes are selected with a view to the needs not of the research worker, but of the general reader of taste...
...given tomorrow afternoon at 4 o'clock in the Living Room of the Union, when Mr. A. W. Locke '05 will play a program of selections for the piano. Mr. Locke has recently been teaching at the University of Wisconsin and is now in the Graduates' School doing research work in the history of music. These concerts, to be given by students of musical ability in the University and a few others, will continue through this month and into April...
With this in view, it would seem as if the Chemistry Department at Harvard should have every facility for carrying on its experiments and for instructing future chemists. Yet while the special research laboratories, used only by professors and very far advanced students, are excellent and adequate, it must be admitted that the facilities for instructing the undergraduate are perhaps the worst in the country, and that, in comparison with some other departments, the chemistry department is at a distinct disadvantage. Boylston Hall is not fire-proof; its store-room is inaccessible; it is dark;--in fact it is hopelessly...
...meeting of the Engineering Society in the Cruft Laboratory this evening at 8 o'clock, a number of experiments in radio-telegraphy will be presented and other research will be comprehensively discussed. Professor G. W. Pierce '99, Dr. E. L. Chafee '11, and Mr. F. Cutting '09 will give short talks illustrating the experiments. All members of the University are cordially invited to attend...