Word: research
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Asking for gifts to the extent of three million dollars, to take care of scholarship funds, research, and Faculty additions, Holmes concluded that "neither the fortunes nor the idealism of the graduates and friends of Harvard have suffered so severely that such gifts are not within the bounds of reasonable hope...
Designed, in the words of Dean John H. Williams, head of the school, as a "means to bring the University and the Public Service nearer together," the new center will fill a dual function as a training field for graduate students in the social sciences and as a research institution for men already doing government administrative work...
...present there are 14 federal administrative workers here on Littauer Fellowships, combining research work and work in an advisory capacity with students and faculty. In addition to the Littauer Fellows, 188 graduate students are taking seminar courses in the new School...
...subject was still patents, Philo T. Farnsworth of Farnsworth Television. Inc. related how he discovered the basic principle of television when he was only 14. Dr. William David Coolidge, director of General Electric Co.'s Schenectady research laboratory, sounded off on G. E.'s recent discovery of "invisible" glass (TIME, Jan. 9). Vice-President George Baekeland of Bakelite Corp. got valuable publicity with his announcement that airplane production could be speeded up by making certain structural parts of plastics...
That agriculture in the United States, as well as in other countries, had developed a surplus of farmers, was reported today in the "Harvard Business Review" by Dr. Joseph S. Davis, Director of the Food Research Institute, Stanford University, and formerly Chief Economist of the Federal Farm Board. Dr. Davis presented an analysis of "Agriculture and the Nation's Business...