Word: research
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...which the modern university is dealing. In the case of the Columbia bequests, this tendency towards diversification is brought out in bold relief. There is a gift from the Carnegie Foundation for a School of Library Service, a gift for the study of political prognostication, a bequest for research in food nutrition, for research in sub-tropical medicine, and others of equally diversified nature...
...year by Mr. George Eastman, of Rochester, New York, by a gift of $200,000, to the American Trust Fund for Oxford University maintained by the Association of American Rhodes Scholars. The regulations of the professorship provide that the holder shall be an American eminent in any branch of research or university study. Elections to the professorship are made by a Board of representatives of the University of Oxford and the Association of American Rhodes Scholars. The term of appointment may be from one to five years, with the possibility of re-election. The professorship is attached to Balliol College...
...seeking additional opportunity to take courses, not for scholastic lame ducks who have had difficulty in regular term time and are atoning for their negligence. They range from the mammoth organizations which have 13,000 students on their rolls, to small schools specializing in some particular field of research. This organization as to terms is widely varied, and their general administration bears more of the close similarity which is characteristic of the regular college...
Professor Lowes has made a very definite impression not only as a scholar but as a personality. His most not able achievements, of course, have been in his research. But both in his books and o the lecturing platform he has demonstrated that if he digs deep for erudition he brings out the interest of his subject without the dust that has settled on his remote sources...
...abuses are fortunately being slowly obliterated. The fact that it has been made shorter this year than previously should permit the instructors in charge of courses to cover their required field without having to require the routine work in the time theoretically to be devoted to personal research. Another interesting change has been effected in English...