Word: researched
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...member of the Harvard Research Center's executive committee, Fainsod is engaged in a series of studies of Soviet and American Government. His earlier works include How Russia is Ruled and Government and the American Economy...
Peabody, the first anthropological museum in America, has collected material for specialized research ever since its founding back in 1866. George Peabody, a philanthropist who emigrated to England after he had amassed his fortune in America from chain-stores and railroading, gave $150,000 to endow a "Museum and Professorship of American Archaeology and Ethnology in connection with Harvard University...
...collection, fine as it is, is today of suprisingly little use for teaching." The Museum as a tool for teaching cannot really be called a truly new concept, but Dr. Reynolds' exacting standards for what constituted an educationally clear display led to a better fullfillment of the Museum's research and educational purposes. The Museum was to be no longer an illogical collection of exotic items of anthropological interest but instead was intended to become a vital aid in the training of anthropologists. As Dr. Reynolds said so aptly, "The primary purpose of the Peabody Museum is the advancement...
This leaves the Peabody free to pursue its basically educational policy as a museum of anthropology. That it is a scholars' museum becomes immediately obvious as one studies its most recent report. Almost all the space is spent in telling the research ventures of its Associates. As is usual, its collections have increased by well over ten thousand specimens and, as always, the Museum is in a restricted financial position...
Established by the late George Ledlie, newspaper executive and associate of Joseph Pulitzer, the award is given semi-annually to recognize the individual at Harvard who has "by research discovered or otherwise made the most valuable contribution to science, or in any way for the benefit of mankind...