Word: research
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Bureau of International Research has been established at Harvard and Radcliffe, through a large gift from the Laura Spelman Rockefeller Memorial, it has just been announced. It is planned that the Rockefeller fund be used, during a period of five years, to develop research of an international character and of an advanced nature, such as might not otherwise be undertaken...
Some of the subjects of research already undertaken or arranged are examples of the type of problems in the field under investigation: comparisons of decisions of national courts where international questions are involved; jurisdiction over coastal waters; allocation of public debts and other obligations, in case of the partition or cession of territories; Latin American relations; and the native African under self-government, colonial administration, and mandates...
...commenting upon the opportunities for development of such research made possible by the Rockefeller Memorial gift, President Comstock of Radcliffe, in her annual report soon to be published, writes...
Withdraw this theory and every department of physical research would fall back into heaps of hopelessly dislocated facts, with no more order or reason or philosophical coherence than exists in a basket of marbles, or in the juxtaposition of the multitudinous sands of the seashore...
...Characterized by a great variety of trees, shrubs, and wild flowers, already a refuge for birds and animal life of interest to the zoologist, and within easy reach of the university, the preserve offers an unusual opportunity for research and for class work in the field...