Word: research
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...modern university like Harvard, this division is perpetuated by restricted endowments, which make specific appropriations to specific departments. All work must be carried on within the bounds thus created; there can be coordination or overlapping. Fluid funds are the solution. They would make possible research projects which need the cooperation of several fields. An excellent example is the Cabot Foundation for research in plant breeding, which gives Harvard a free hand and thus permits expenditure in several departments, including the Forest, Arnold Arboretum, and the Biological Laboratory. Moreover, unrestricted funds can support scholars, like the proposed University Professors, whose horizon...
Harvard students stand straighter, have better muscular co-ordination today than their predecessors in the period just after the war. Such is the conclusion reached by Norman W. Fradd, assistant director of Physical Education, in a survey of research and training programs, extending over a period of 20 years in University service...
...fitted to experiment and introduce educational innovations than their public counterparts. Significant experiments such as the tutorial system or the National Scholarship plan could never have originated in state universities, subject as they are to budget-balancing governors. Moreover, only an institution like Harvard is capable of extensively promoting research of a non-utilitarian character, the ultimate values of which may not be appreciated by the constituency of a vote-seeking politician...
...finance research and advertising for Progressive Education, P. E. A. needed money. It did not need to look outside its own group, for one of its members was gentle, modest Mrs. Avery Coonley, daughter of Capitalist Dexter Mason Ferry (Ferry Seeds), who was running a little Progressive school in Downer's Grove, Ill. Watered by Mrs. Coonley's gifts, P. E. A. flourished and Progressive Education burst into bloom...
...highly commendable, but the rapidly changing demands of modern life are bringing to light new problems to be solved by the educational world--and Harvard is in the vanguard of those attempting to solve these new problems. For several years the perplexing problem of the relative merits of research versus teaching have been debated at great length, notably during the furore of "crises": like last year's Walsh-Sweezy controversy. President Conant has stated, defended, and enlarged his ideas on the subject, but among students and teachers--of both oratorical and research types--the conflict remains undecided. Second...