Word: research
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...income from the bequest will be devoted to supporting research work in bacteriology and to purchasing books for the library. Both of Mrs. Dexter's sons are graduates of the University; Gordon Dexter completing his course in 1887 and Samuel Dexter, now dead, graduating three years later...
...which both my sons graduated, one in the class of 1887 and the other in the class of 1890. I therefore . . . do hereby give the residue of my estate . . . to the President and Fellows of Harvard College, the income of one molety to be applied for the purpose of research in bacteriology in the medical or other departments of the university, and the income of the other molety thereof to be applied to the purchase of books for the library of the university or its branches...
...question that attitude. False opinions of education as a "pouring-in process" are likely to be rudely shaken by the November examinations. And by the Mid-Year period they must have begun to see that education--at least the Harvard brand of it--tries to stimulate active, critical research for truth. To fail to see it is to run serious danger of terminating one's academic career...
...Shipman write this article? It was not satire. It was not research. It was not irreverence. On the contrary, it was a reverent parable which endeavored to explain how a man could be a Christian without taking the Bible literally from Genesis to Revelations...
President Eliot once began a research to find out why families which had for generations sent their sons to Harvard, gradually ceased to be represented in the University. The impossibility of finding records of the maternal sides forced him to abandon the attempt, but he said that he had secured irrefutable proof that the Anglo Saxon stock in America is dying...