Word: research
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...condition that this student will contract to serve in the Mallinckrodt Chemical Works during the year 1915-16 at a suitable salary. The student must have taken at least Chemistry 5, 6, 9, 10 and 11. Preference will be given to a men wishing a broad theoretical training in research as a foundation for subsequent practice of technical chemistry. The time for receiving applications has been changed from April 1 to March 15, when they should be sent to Professor G. B. Baxter, Chairman of the Division of Chemistry...
...Bureau of Business Research has recently published a second bulletin giving a more detailed account of its investigation of the retail shoe industry. The work is similar in character to that which the Department of Agriculture and the agricultural schools have done for farming...
After speaking briefly on the four periods of Inca history, Professor Bingham went directly to a description of the expedition of 1912, on which was discovered Machu Picchu, the capital city of the Incas. He first told of the difficulties involved in reaching the region for research; how the party painfully plodded its way through a well-nigh impassable jungle, at the rate of a mile a day; how the problem of labor was overcome only by Peruvian police, who forced the lethargic natives to work; and how the expedition made its way over mountains, flooded torrents, and fathomless abysses...
...American Political Science Association is at work upon a plan for co-operation between the universities on the one side and municipalities and other forms of government on the other side, in the training of men for public service. The Committee contemplates the establishment of a kind of research fellowships, and as a first step would like to know whether there are students of the universities (including Harvard) who have already had some of the governmental courses and would contemplate spending half or the whole, of a year in practice work...
...training. As an educator of high school graduates and foreign students, Technology has always been in the front rank. Although it has also striven to benefit college graduates and all sorts of men, the combination of the two colleges will increase the cosmopolitanism and democracy of both. Technology's "research departments, splendidly equipped and splendidly endowed, will be used by men from all corners of the earth. It is an excellent thing for all work, whether elementary or advanced to be carried on at the same time, in the same place, under the same...