Word: research
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Nero: "Has not modern research proved that Nero (as if his character were not black enough already) while Rome was burning, played, not the fiddle, but the bagpipe...
...Research. The action at Johns Hopkins was also expressive of a renewed emphasis that came during the year upon the university as an institution for research as well as teaching. Many college presidents had joined with many financiers and U. S. Secretary of Commerce Hoover to establish a National Research Endowment Fund of 20 millions (TIME, March 15, SCIENCE). Historians were seeking a million to underwrite their work. Dean Pound of the Harvard Law School had spoken out on the subject of research in law, and been materially aided by the General Education Board (TIME...
...house of Polo would profit by the advertisement. Copies of this manuscript were made in several tongues, which scholars and explorers have annotated through the centuries. The present volume is the classic translation by Scholar Marsden of England (1818), edited now with reference to the most modern scientific research and with an aim forgotten since Marsden's time, in a welter of notes, namely, to make the Polos' travels readable primarily as rare narrative...
Professor Osterhout, who was for 15 years a member of the Botany department at Harvard, resignd from the University last spring to become head of the division of general psychology of the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research. Professor Osterhout graduated from Brown University in 1893 and spent two years following his graduation an the University of Bonn before taking his doctor's degree at the University of California. In 1909 he came to the University as Assistant Professor of Botany and in 1913 was made Professor of Botany...
...availability of reference material, are ideal for the production of an adequate piece of work. The report of substantial length furnishes what the examination often lacks: an opportunity for original thinking. Already, candidates for distinction are required to submit a capable thesis before receiving their honors. And the research methods of graduate work are simply an elaboration of the same system...