Word: research
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...study and has directed it from the beginning. It was supported in 1921-22 and 1922-23 by the commonwealth Fund, which granted $16,000 in each of these years to the Harvard Graduate School of Education for this purpose. The Commonwealth Fund limited its grants for educational research, on principle, to two years, and it has since withdrawn from this field of activity altogether. From 1923-24 through 1928-29 the School supported the study out of its unrestricted income, and the University has made from the Milton Fund two grants at $2500 each to meet special needs...
Graduates of engineering colleges are well provided for here. Our professors, each in his own field, have something to offer to men who as undergraduates give promise of real usefulness in the work of development, design, or research. Opportunities for graduate study and research are offered in all the departments of the School...
Nock expressed admiration for the library system at Harvard and explained that the privilege of studying in stacks was a great help to a scholar. To one who is collating a text or occupied in some other equally fine research the convenience of studies in the stacks is invaluable. He thought that the Widener Library is perhaps the greatest asset of Harvard...
...Optimum Densities for Residential Distribution Under Zoning and Planning" will be the subject of research conducted by Mr. Whitten. He will endeavor to determine particularly how sparse population may be spread and still meet the cost of city improvements and adequate housing. New light thrown on this subject is expected to benefit realtors, land owners, and the individual householder...
...department of Political Economy of Columbia University. He has traveled widely in Europe and has had many contacts with European leaders of Labor, Socialist, and Cooperative movements. His recent books include "A History of Socialist Thought" and "Power Control" Laidler is vice-president of the National Bureau of Economic Research and chairman of the Labor Research Committee of the Rand School...