Word: research
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...archaeologist, when he is fulfilling his highest function, is engaged in historical research and for that purpose needs a wide knowledge not only of the sciences that man has acquired, but of human psychology so that he may understand man as well as things...
...Fine Arts, and even Music and Astronomy, I imagine, would be useful. It is not necessary that a man must have a knowledge of the higher branches of these subjects, but he must have enough to recognize the character of the questions which arise and to select the proper research men to be consulted in regard to them...
Stout is taking a course in research work under Mr. G. P. Winship '93, Librarian of the Widener Collection, and in perusing an original edition of Elizabethan plays recently, he noticed that the binding was cardboard on the inside and vellum on the outside. Examining the vellum, he saw that it was an old musical score with French-Latin words written in. He took it to Mr. Winshop, who allowed him to remove the binding after paying for another...
...Thompson Institute of Botanical Research at Yonkers, N. Y., founded with a $3,000,000 endowment by Colonel William Boyce Thompson (TIME, Oct. 6) has been conducting a series of experiments on the longevity of seeds. The greatest record so far established has been with seeds of the lotus (Nelumbo nucifera). These seeds were taken from the dried-up bed of a lake in Manchuria. The lake-bed had been covered with loess, seolian deposits of dust from the Gobi Desert. The depth and stratification of the deposit enabled a rough calculation of the age of the seeds...
...Research" is beginning to crowd "education" as the current slogan. The education of every one is important, but with all its education the poulace still seems to follow as closely as ever the leadership of its most intelligent and forceful men, and the education of the intelligent and forceful men is therefore perhaps more important still. As Mr. Young said, they need facts; and thus it is that the scientific method, after having weakened, is now reviving the old popular attitude toward learning knowledge as a thing of value in itself. New York Herald-Tribune