Word: research
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...been reprinted from the Harvard Graduates Magazine, and is ready for distribution in booklet form at University 2. Dean Sabine was active in war work, having been associated with the Information Bureau of the United States Navy in Paris, the French Bureau of Inventions, and the Bureau of Research of the Air Service of the American Expeditionary Force during the spring and summer of 1917. He returned to this country in the fall of that year when he became a leader in the air service at Washington. He came back to Cambridge to resume his duties as professor of physics...
University work in Education has two main purposes--the solution, by study, experiment, and investigation, of the many and varied problems of education; and the training of leaders for the schools. Both these purposes call for a graduate institution, with ample equipment for research, including a laboratory and a school, with an adequate staff of specialists, and with a body of students capable of advanced study based on a college education and experience in teaching and school administration. The training of college students for their first work as teachers must probably remain at least in part an undergraduate business...
...School will also offer extension and summer courses for teachers who are not graduates of a college. Its most important functions, however, will be research and the training of superintendents, principals and school officers...
...educator, is to have a memorial service on Saturday. The same zeal that carried him to Asia in the cause of science made him one of the first American volunteers in France, in the early part of 1914. The ability which he showed in organizing and leading expeditions of research made possible later, the success of his greater effort...
...very modern and complete equipment. In the department of Mechanical Engineering are heat engine laboratories, an applied mechanics laboratory, hydraulic laboratory, laboratory for testing materials, cement and concrete laboratories, the power room at Pierce Hall, and the Refrigeration plant at the Medical School. The electrical equipment includes dynamo, research, high tension, photometric, and standardizing laboratories. In addition are several chemical and physics workshops, as well as a laboratory of sanitary engineering, the Cruft Laboratory for radio-telegraphic engineering, the Simpkins ore-dressing laboratory, the Simpkins assay laboratory, and the laboratory of metallurgy...