Word: researchers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Guthrie, president of the New York City Bar Association, urged that the statement be deleted at once from the Harvard booklet. He had the right to be heard, because he had already contributed 10,000 to the Harvard Law School campaign to raise $5,000,000 for legal research, in which interest the booklet was published. Said he: "The phrase has done more harm than any other single utterance during the past 30 years." Wilson S. Powell, chairman of the committee that drew up the booklet, replied that the phrase would remain, that Mr. Taft had made similar remarks...
Carnegie Fund. The Carnegie Corporation, by report just out, made grants of $6,000,000 its last fiscal year. To Libraries, $4,500,000 was given; to Fine Arts, $600,000; to research, $375,000; for adult education, $300,000. Million dollar grants by educational foundations are reported to be rarer. There are still 50,000,000 U. S. and Canadian people without access to local public libraries...
...true that research is hindered or delayed because of the belief that only a large and important subject is worth undertaking...
...Would you be likely to produce a particular piece of work if you were assured of a definite grant sufficient to cover part of the expenses of research and publication...
...Will you add any other reason that you think of that will help explain why there is no more productive research on the part of holders of Ph.D. degrees...