Word: research
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...illustrations of the Old Testament stories were done just like TIME cover portraits, according to Rowe. There was one difference, however, and "it really made me appreciate the help that TIME gives its artists. TIME gives you sufficient photographs of the cover subject, a physical description of him, research into his life and character, and even an idea of how to do the cover. On the Old Testament assignment I had to start from scratch. I had to interpret the figures myself from the clues given in the stories...
...only books and newspapers have been stored in the building. During the war, the Army conducted a research center in the first floor, and Business School beds and Fogg Museum furniture were kept in the building at various times. Currently a huge stack of boxes of WPA documents is sitting on the first level, courtesy of the Massachusetts State Library...
...most interesting phases of the Students' work has been the research program. About a dozen or so of the group have spent most of their time researching into alleged malpractices of the past administration and into vital statistics on previous elections. Once this group collected its figures, another division of the student group printed them in a newspaper. In their first issue, for instance, was a "Waste Table" showing three or four items on the city books during the past administration which they claimed were a gross and extravagant loss to the city. In another column in the newspaper...
Other big money losers in the Harvard family are graduate schools. The chief worries here are the Divinity School, which has almost always been in the red, and the Medical School, whose woe is increased by the high costs of its many research programs...
...grant of $10,000 for the project has been provided by the Merrill Foundation for Advancement of Financial Knowledge. This will pay for exploratory research and studies in the coming year, Dean Mason said, adding that a four or five year program is contemplated if the initial studies prove fruitful...