Word: research
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...reason in simple: more than manpower and materials go into medical research. When, for example, the Rockefeller Foundation gives the School some money, the grant comes on a project basis, with a long string of Greek words stipulating what the money will be spent for. The School is left to sign the check for what officials term the "intangibles"--chief among them, spending time to organize the project and the providing of the space to carry it out. What happens is that for each $1.00 of gift money received, the School is often left...
Unfortunately, there is no easy way of getting around this. You can't teach medicine without research, and you can't keep recognized medical experts on your faculty without allowing them to advance their individual projects and theories in the laboratories...
There's another vital reason why, in spite of the costs, the Medical School doesn't want to cut down the scale of its research program. To be able to maintain such a show--with grants continually coming in from the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis, the Department of Public Health, and many other donors--lends Harvard Medical tremendous prestige in the public eye and insures, in a sense, the reputation of the School...
Such a big research program, in which the grants received don't meet enough of the overhead costs, cannot go on forever. That's why the Medical School's new dean, George P. Berry, is quite busy these days reorganizing the School's money-raising activities in the hope of encouraging more gifts that have no restrictions attached. It will be quite a job to woo such contributions, for there is no romance in giving money that merely greases the wheels...
...Helen Putnam award, carrying a stipend of $2800 a year, is open to women scholars who have obtained their doctorate. Applicants must submit a plan of research with preference given to those whose research is already in progress...