Word: research
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Washington last week a new find was announced which may either clarify the situation or obfuscate it further, and is certain to be argued about. Dr. Gustav Heinrich Ralph von Koenigsvald, research associate of the Carnegie Institution of Washington, had found on the banks of the Solo River in Java several teeth, a lower jaw and skull fragments of a humanoid creature which he took to be considerably older than Pithecanthropus, and therefore the oldest human or subhuman relic ever discovered. The lower jaw was "very heavy, with large teeth having resemblance in various characters to several of the most...
...York firm recently solicited Harvard business in a form letter received by a great number of the undergraduate body. In fact, on closer examination the services offered by this concern turned out to be considerably more than "ghosting," or rewrite work; it developed that the firm undertook to do research in any academic field desired, that a customer had only to wire to the company the nature of the problem confronting him and he would receive by registered mail a few days later a paper of any desired length, in rough draft or "ready to submit" as ordered...
...respect the firm is to be congratulated. It has realized that there is a place for research in the present economic system; it has seized on this opportunity, acquired reference books, bibliographies and other facilities known to scholars; it has adapted "book learning" to practical use and is prepared to aid men of affairs in dealing with academic problems, at a price. But in placing the names of college students on its mailing list, it has entered territory in which it is not in the least welcome...
Thanks to the generosity of Godfrey L. Cabot '82 the Geology department had at its disposal for scientific experiment a 6000 ft. oil well near Charleston. Although this well never yielded any oil, it provided an excellent opportunity for Leet's important research work...
Harold T. Edwards, a member of the staff of the Fatigue Laboratory since its founding 10 years ago, died on Tuesday at the age of 40. Edwards besides being a Research Associate in the Laboratory, was Biological Chemist to the Hygiene Department...