Word: research
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Another serious deficiency of the general Freshman course of study is that the method of study, the most valuable asset to be acquired at Harvard, is not learned until the Sophomore or Junior year. Whether because they are regarded as too young, or because research is held incompatible with general study, Freshman may be in good standing in June without knowing how to write a footnote or identify a primary source...
...Your Research Department has spring fever...
...research has no commercial application; it will cure no disease," declared Paul D. Bartlett, 30-year-old assistant professor of chemistry and winner of this year's $1000 prize in pure chemistry awarded yesterday by the American Chemical Society...
This award was made for progress in research which involves the application of the methods of physical chemistry to the problems of organic chemistry. Bartlett explained, "This approach proved valuable in checking certain much-debated theories concerning molecular rearrangements and additional reactions of halogens to carbon compounds...
...Committee was established in 1932 at Harvard to administer funds received from the Rockefeller Foundation or from other sources for research in the social sciences...