Word: research
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Nevertheless, the School's needs continue great. Many things are wrong or undeveloped in the School. The Baker Library is inadequately endowed and has large unsolved problems ahead. The research of the School, by which its present standing has been built up and upon the continuance of which the maintenance of these standards wholly depends, is still subject to the risks of annual contributions from a shifting group of business men and industries. The years ahead are full of dangers as well as opportunities, but therein lies the interest in the School's future...
...third floor will be devoted to the use of the Psychology Department which has long been cramped in its present quarters and feels the need of added laboratory and research equipment. Rumors that space to provide for the demands of the University Police, now situated in the basement of Harvard Hall along with miscellaneous branches of the Maintenance Department, lawn mowers, paint brushes, hoes, rakes, and what you will, would be found in the newly renovated building were yesterday dispelled...
...should be well informed, at least having access through other persons to information on any technical subject. He should be permanent and always accessible, to keep him in contact with both students and men capable of giving advice. It does not seem absolutely essential, however, either that he conduct research or that he be a retired business man or that he have had experience in a great number of fields, although all these things are desirable. The adviser's ability to talk to students understandingly is his prime requisite...
Five years Engineer Woolson and his research staff at the Packard plant have labored designing the motor. They had, first, the diesel principle to go on, i.e., that air can be heated by compression until hot enough to ignite a jet of fuel...
...Arcy Ryan, who is to General Electric Co.'s light research what the late great Charles Proteus Steinmetz was to its studies in power, is charged with arranging electrical displays all over the U. S. for a summer-long continuation of the festivities...