Word: research
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...University professorships. For as these funds are designed to bolster the professorial and undergraduate ranks to their utmost efficiency in the strictly academic branches of the University, so the endowment fund for athletics must be aimed at giving "the same basis of security" to athletics "as the instruction and research carried on by the faculties, museums, and research institutions." Though this objective may seem far distant and almost unattainable, in view of the relative smallness of the fund as it stands, and also because it is hard to envisage a day when athletics can be so well fed by endowment...
...noisy city campus on Walnut Street. To start with 50 freshmen, the tiny college I will instruct selected students by the tutorial method mainly in American history, government and English for a fee of about $1,250 a year. Other drive aims: strengthening the faculty, more money for research, more scholarships, new chemistry and library buildings, extension of the museum...
...eyes of Oxonians with a gift of $10,000,000 for a medical centre and $500,000 for the Bodleian Library, had previously given $700,000 for an infirmary. Last week he tossed Oxford University another $6,500,000. He gave $1,000,000 for more medical research, $500,000 to buy a site for a new school of physical chemistry, $5,000,000 for a new college for social studies. Thereupon, the onetime bicycle mechanic, now the Henry Ford of Great Britain, who has given $55,000,000 to British education and charity and still has some...
Edward L. Yordan, reserach associate in the Bureau of Street Traffic Research, gave the first lecture in a course on "Auto Driving Education and Training" last night for the Association School of the Young Men's Christian Association...
...trust me, but I don't trust you. Wear black glasses, look the other way when you concentrate, shut your eyes, or something, but don't go around hypnotizing the faculty. The Dean's Office is a bit prejudiced about psychical research...