Word: research
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...innovations in the curriculum will not be imposed upon them without conferences, when they will retort with "tu quoque" to the professor, "if we study badly it is because we are taught badly," "If we have no intellectual enthusiasm it is because your teaching is mechanized," "If we despise research it because of your own attitude toward it," "If some of you gentlemen with Ph.D.'s showed any real enthusiasm for research we might ourselves respect it more." "We know what an interesting lecture is as well as you do," "we know when a course is well taught as well...
...Dean Roscoe Pound of the Harvard Law School addressed the Harvard Law School Alumni today at a luncheon at the Harvard-Yale-Princeton Club. He gave the Alumni his reasons for the drive launched recently by the Law School to obtain funds for the establishment of five research professorships...
Discussing "The Scope and Purpose of Legal Research," Dean Pound said: "In an age of expanding trade the operations of business could not be confined by the straight jacket of legal conceptions and legal institutions worked out for the simpler commercial conditions of Feudal England. Then it took an act of Parliament to bring courts to recognize an established instrument of commerce. Today a simple legislative act will seldom suffice. Also today the economic structure is so complex and so delicate that we cannot wait for things to work themselves out at a great cost in friction and waste...
...pride and prejudice have forced this, together with a large amount of real fear, into the darkness and away from the light of common interest and community research. And the very fact that this has so long held true must-remind many that this is not a question which can be settled in any easy or immediate manner...
...words of a new Harvard Hymn, suitable to be sung in chapel, have been recently published by F. J. Allen, is graduate of the School of Education in the class of 1903, and at present Research Fellow in the Bureau of Vocational Guidance...