Word: research
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...established in 1871 through the bequest of Benjamin Bussey Institution was for the encouragement of theological and legal education in the University: the other half to be devoted to the promotion of practical agriculture. In 1908 the institution was re-organized solely as an institution for advanced instruction and research in subjects relating to practical agriculture and as such it is now being used. The part of the Estate to be sold, amounting to about 118 acres is separated from the rest of the land by the tracks of the Boston and Providence Railroad and is so scattered...
...condition that this student will contract to serve in the Mallinckrodt Chemical Works during the year 1914-15 at a suitable salary. The student must have taken Chemistry 5, 6, 9, 10, and 11. Preference will be given to a man wishing a broad theoretical training in research as a foundation for the subsequent practice of technical chemistry. Only students of unusual ability will be considered. Applications should be addressed before April 1 to Assistant Professor G. P. Baxter, chairman of the Division of Chemistry...
Professor emeritus William Morris Davis '69 has been presented with a Culver gold medal by the Geographic Society of Chicago. The Culver medal, given by Miss Helen Culver, is awarded to distinguished scientists for great discoveries and research work. In presenting the medal Professor R. D. Salisbury of the University of Chicago said that it was given for Professor Davis's untiring work in geographical research...
...tariff questions the work of Harvard professors has been of wide-spread influence and has directed the stream of public opinion into channels leading to scientific analysis and reasonable adjustment. The contributions of the Medical School to the science of preventive medicine and the important discoveries following medical research illustrate amply that the University comprehends the problems of the community and extends her forces to solve them...
...literary "output" will become as important as the number of students in attendance. The trade publishers will not suffer, for universities are not given to producing "best sellers," and most of their books a publisher could not well afford to bandle. Yet in addition to publishing records of research, of interest mainly to specialists, the universities might well consider how far they can supply books of permanent value the demand for which is too small to warrant a general publisher in undertaking them. The Loeb classical library is an excellent example of what a university might have done...