Word: research
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...offering of a new method rather than the answering of a new need. He foresees the Littauer Center growing into a real center for men in the public service whether federal, state, or local, and for men in the social sciences, whatever their particular specialty, who are engaged upon research in broad public problems...
...School will open for its first regular session this fall, following over a year of exploratory sessions in which the faculty and invited government officials collaborated in shaping a new type of curriculum for study and research on basic governmental problems. Until the start of the second term this years, the School will continue to be housed in Hunt Hall in the Yard...
Teaching vs. Research...
...galaxy has been popularized as a vast agglomeration of stars shaped like a lens or a discus, or like two very shallow saucers glued together rim to rim. So far as the dense masses of the Milky Way are concerned, this is scientifically correct. But in recent years astronomical research has disclosed, far above and below the disk, a sparse population of stars which cosmically and gravitationally belong to the Milky Way galaxy. Harlow Shapley of Harvard Observatory, famed cosmic map maker, has interested himself in these galactic outriders...
Meanwhile, he studied at the New School for Social Research, was co-founder of a serious little magazine called the Economic Forum. During vacations he played in tennis tournaments, was good enough to enter the Nationals at Forest Hills. He also became "pitch-golf" champion of Broadway, saw every play. In his own plays, he admits sheepishly, he cannot make the women come alive...