Word: research
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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With young Harvard and Yale alumni playing a prominent part in the turbulent Passaic, N. J., strike, the latest upheaval in the textile industry, the University is opening its annual competition for the chance of subsidized research work in the field of industrial relations...
Professor James Ford '04, secretary of the Wertheim Research Fellowship Committee on Industrial Relations, has announced that applications for that fellowship must be handed in to him at Emerson Hall, Cambridge, before April 15. The award is open to all in the University who wish to enter the competition. The holder of this fellowship will be appointed not earlier than May 15 and will receive $3,600 in ten installments with an additional $750 for research expenses...
...degree has recently occasioned' much discussion among educators. Unlike the situation at English universities where it forms the crown of undergraduate study the master's degree has never had any definite standing among American universities. And since the widening scope of scholarship has intensified specialization, extended research work has come to be considered a necessity. Consequently the Ph.D. has superseded it as the general goal of graduate study. Because of this the master's degree has been reduced to the dubious position of a half-way house between dilletantism and scholarship...
...dormitories in the shapes of quadrangles which will face the river, a library dominating the group, in which will be combined three of the largest business collections in the country, the Administration Building, Faculty and student clubs, small houses for unmarried members of the faculty, class-rooms, research laboratories, and a gymnasium...
...time in close relations with the other branches of the University. A strenuous effort is being made to make the surroundings beautiful and to keep the atmosphere of the place from being one of money-getting. A number of men of professorial rank have been devoting themselves to business research for the last two years, and will be prepared to instruct the growing number of men in the science of business, rather than ways of quickly accumulating a fortune...