Word: research
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...gives the John Cadwallader Grimshaw Dormitory or the Grimshaw Laboratory; or he establishes the Grimshaw Scholarships; or perhaps, being interested in some special branch of study, he establishes the Grimshaw Research Fund, hoping that he may thus make possible some discovery which will be connected, however vaguely, with his name. Possibly, he attaches to the gift, not his own name, but his father's or his wife's or his son's, setting up a memorial to someone other than himself. But the principle is the same in each case: the desire for praise and immortality--if only a vicarious...
...textile strike which for 12 weeks had been enlivening the annals of New Jersey with accounts of strikers dispersed with clubs, tear bombs, riot acts and jail sentences, spent its 13th week in a futile research for a peace settlement...
...committee that has raised some six millions to expand and endow the Johns Hopkins hospital and medi-cal school. Now he will be, with President Goodnow, the mainspring by which Johns Hopkins means to eliminate its elementary instruction, reorganize itself on its original lines of advanced and research work (TIME, March 8) and raise six more millions to finance the change...
Harvard and Johns Hopkins stand, with very little company, at the forefront of higher education in the U. S.-for research, for great teachers, for liberal and progressive educational policies. It is notable to behold those policies, so far as they are brought about by boards of trustees, being furthered by the country's highest type of "captain of industry"; notable to behold two men, who have made very definite contributions to what the country economically is, now in their graying prime bringing an intellectual increment to what the country, culturally, shall...
Goiter Germ? Last week a modest man spoke diffidently before the Toledo, Ohio, Academy of Medicine. He was Dr. Andre Crotti of Columbus, Ohio, who cautiously explained that after twelve years' research, he had isolated a minute organism constantly found in non-toxic goiter. He had never seen anything like it before; no one had ever described it; injected into a dog it had caused goiter. Lacking experimental facilities, he suggested that others carry on his research; perhaps he had found a cause of goiter other than the well-known lack of iodine...