Word: research
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...universities the two are too frequently grouped, together and each suffers in consequence. Students looking forward to a teaching career do not need the same kind of instruction as those who are fitting themselves for scholarship through research...
...Graduate courses generally are now so shaped as to meet the requirements of the scholar but unfortunately these course are swamped by those who plan to be teachers. While knowledge of the methods of research is essential to those who are to teach, it is by no means true that these students should pursue the intensive research courses established primarily for future workers in research...
That its original purpose and policy of training graduate students and performing research work has been returned to, with the abolishment of freshman and sophomore courses...
...members of the Franklin Institute of Philadelphia took their seats for their annual meeting last week in an atmosphere of ill-concealed excitement. Weeks before, the committee on awards had notified Dr. William David Coolidge, assistant research director of the General Electric Co., that he was this year's recipient of the Howard N. Potts gold medal, in recognition of his now universally used invention, the Coolidge X-ray tube. And Dr. Coolidge had replied, saying that he would present himself for the reward, and at the same time submit a demonstration called: "A Method of Producing High Voltage...
...Chicago. He: gave considerable time to improving the physical appearance of the city. Lastly, to perpetuate his name in worthy fashion, he gave $3,000,000 to build, an aquarium in Chicago, for which he sent a commission to study aquaria abroad-the invertebrate collection at Naples, biological research at Monaco, artificial salinity at Berlin, lighting in London. The Shedd Aquarium, now under construction, will contain 131 exhibition tanks with some of the rarest fish in the world...