Word: research
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...have helped to push the Classics into the virtual limbo in which they now stagnate, all is not right with the department here. A definite charge that they have neglected to make their subject appealing to students must be made against the men who now control its policy. Musty research, benign scholasticism and dull philology are not fulfilling obligations to their subject or to students who might benefit from a more vigorous and timely presentation. That a broader cultural and literary approach might be used is merely one general suggestion. At any rate, if a classical education here...
Established in 1928, the Harvard Yenching Institute, administers a fund established under the will of Charles M. Hall, of Niagara Falls, New York. The purposes of the Institute are to early on for properly prepared Chinese and Occidental Scholars, research and educational work of the type appropriate to a graduate school of arts and sciences...
...Danish Professor's researches and the micro-techniques he has developed, recording to medical authorities, open up a promising new field for the correlation of histological and biochemical research...
Today's bill at the University can be recommended to the Harvard public in general, but it is recommended to History 1 section men in particular. They raised an eyebrow at "The Buccaneer"; they are being currently horrified by "Marco Polo," but "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer" is a research job. As a piece of social documentation it is unexcelled even by the work from which it was taken, every item in the sets having been checked for historical authenticity...
Dean Williams foresees the "Littauer Center growing into a real center for men in the public service whether federal, state, or local, and for men within the social sciences, whatever their particular specialty, who are engaged upon research in broad public problems...