Word: research
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Cellulose; its Uses and Possibilities in World Affairs" is the title of a lecture to be given tonight by Dr. Gustavus Esselin, a prominent authority in the field of research chemistry. The lecture will be at 8 o'clock in the Chemistry Laboratory and will be illustrated with slides...
Announcement was made yesterday of the recipients of grants from the $250,000 fund given Harvard last January by the General Education Board, an institution supported by the Rockefeller Foundation, for research work in the humanities...
...Lowes, Professor of English, is given a sum of money to prepare an edition of the Gutch Memorandum Book in the British Museum, and to continue work on Chaucer and Coleridge, with the help of a research assistant...
...most varied forms of culture without rousing any lay opposition to its work as unnecessary or futile. The endowment granted to the Fogg Art Museum a few weeks ago may well become a classic example of sensible generosity; and the awards of the General Education Board for literary research of importance, while not announced with the explosive force that accompanied the earlier huge gift, are along similar lines of a practical value that only the most hardened Philistine would deny...
...Foundation. Indeed, the resemblance is far deeper than this mere similarity of proportion, since the modern study of the humanities is really in the scientific manner. The archaeologist, the philologist, the historian must be quite as definitely and concretely trained in his own work as the student of chemical research is in his, and, what is more important, must be nearly as well equipped financially. The possibilities of the cloister as the best milieu for academic life were exhausted some centuries ago; the modern man of letters must be actruly modern man, and if for no other reason than that...