Word: research
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...last week the National Academy of Sciences announced that no one is going to stop work, that work is just going to begin. With the help of Secretary of Commerce Hoover it is going to establish a fund of 20 millions to rescue genius from "conditions that stifle independent research." It has consulted 30 college presidents and many another notable?Andrew W. Mellon, Charles E. Hughes, John W. Davis, Elihu Root, Vernon L. Kellogg, Colonel Edward M. House, et al.?and one and all are agreed that time and money should be laid aside to guard and fan sparks...
...Presidents from publishing information concerning their official service. under penalty of a $1000 fine. Evidently designed to prevent the recurrence of such revelations as the House Memoirs, now appearing in the Boston Globe and the New York Herald Tribune, the proposed law would not only handicap future historical research but would deprive the public of correct knowledge of events with which their welfare is intimately connected...
While at the Summer School he will give a course on Ethics with special reference to Aristotle and another in Philosophical research. After the Summer School is over he will attend the philosophy conference which is to be held at Harvard next September...
...Antevs, under a grant from the Shaler Memorial Fund for Research in Geology, has been investigating the glacial deposits of eastern North America. Previous to this Dr. Antevs made extensive research connected with the glacial deposits of Europe. Many of the results of these studies will be incorporated in his lectures...
This project too has yet to materialize, but its announcement last week was underwritten by the following names: William George Besler, President of the Railroad Presidents of America; David White, Chairman of the Division of Geology and Geography of the National Research Council; Edward Francis Carry, President of the Pullman Co.; Charles Campbell, Deputy Minister of Mines for Canada; Ralph Budd, President of the Great Northern Railroad; Stephen Tyng Mather, Director of the National Park Service; Hermon Carey Bumpus, American Museum of Natural History (1902-11); Charles Doolittle Waicott, President of the Smithsonian Institution; C. A. Fetterolf, International Mercantile Marine...