Word: research
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...failed in his first examination for the doctorate of science. He knew he could pass it, but he had attended a celebration the night before. And, having ideas of his own, he refused to "beat the system." Later he took the degree, be came Research Associate of the Cancer Commission, Assistant Dean of Harvard, Assistant Director of the Carnegie Institute's Station for Experimental Evolution at Washington, Captain in aviation, Presi dent of the University of Maine. At 37, a university president for the second time, he shocked Michigan conservatives by publicly advocating birth control, became Director...
...Bill, from wretched demimondaines who imagine that their dreary chirpings, their horrid -amusements bear a close resemblance to the more graceful if less temperate indiscretions of the immortal Ninon. The history of her long and erratic career (1615-1705) is well recounted by Author Austin, without evidence of vast research, in his shallow, swift running style. He regards her misdemeanors with a sympa- thetic eye, is careful to point out that her liaisons often cooled to life-long friendships. Well he describes her receiving, in the convent to which she had been temporarily remanded by the Queen of France...
...Research Bureau of the Business School has just begun a detailed and complete study of the expenses incurred by grocery manufacturers in marketing their products in the year 1927, the results to the food Industries of the United States. From a study of the accounting practices of the representative firms, a standard classification, of marketing expenses has been developed, and copies have been sent to approximately 1000 grocery manufacturers for use in reporting their figures to the Bureau...
...excrescence in modern education will be as gratifying to students in the upper rank groups, as it is a valuable suggestion for advantageous segregation. For the observation is based on the fact that men graduating with honors from Harvard are now prepared to assume the responsibilities of individual productive research that signalizes the degree of Doctor of Philosophy, without intermediate preparation. The master's degree must continue to exist as a haven for the ambitious but unprepared, and to satisfy the requirements for teaching positions in secondary schools. But with a separation, as President Lowell urges, of the preparation...
...designed for the benefit not of the students alone, but also of the instructing staff. In last year's report it was pointed out that the tutors' time was so absorbed by their pupils as to make it difficult for them to pursue their own studies and research and a danger was felt of losing our best men if they could not be given a better opportunity for these things. They were asked whether limiting the time when their pupils might confer with them to certain hours of the day or certain days of the week would give relief...