Word: researchers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...woman to whom another pregnancy might bring death or severe illness to obtain knowledge of contraceptive measures, and it is under this cloak that much information is given out. But it is necessary, if we desire to decrease the pauper classes, to institute an unhampered program of research into contraceptive questions to discover, if possible, a simple way to free poor or feeble minded women from the burden of families too large to be brought up with safety...
...Trinidad where they will visit the Imperial College of Tropical Agriculture. From there their course will be west through the Dutch Lesser Antilles to Venezuela, Colombia, and Panama. They will stop in the Panama Canal Zone for Professor Barbour's annual inspection of the Barro Colorado Island Tropical Research Station of the Institute for Research in Tropical America, of which Mr. Barbour is Chairman...
Professor Oakes Ames '98, Chairman of the Council of Botanical Collections and Supervisor of the Biological Laboratory and Botanic Garden in Cuba, will also leave on a southern trip, early next month, when he will visit the Biological Laboratory and Botanic Garden in Cuba. He intends to carry on research work in connection with economic botany and to make a survey of the station with a view to obtaining data for possible alterations to be made in the future...
...information obtained by Professor Taussig and Mr. Joslyn includes statements by business leaders throughout the United States pertaining to the social classes from which the leaders have been recruited, the extent of their training and education, and the circumstances surrounding the early stages in their business careers. The research is made possible through a grant of the Milton Fund, a foundation supporting 37, research projects undertaken by various members of the faculty...
Professor Taussig stressed the point that the facts and statistics, gained through the questionnaires returned, would make possible a more definite conclusion on the problems of social stratification than has ever been made before. The research was started last fall and Professor Taussig estimates that it will be several months before the exact conclusions will be known due to the diverse nature of the replies received from business men. It is possible that tardy returns of questionnaires may swell the total considerably beyond its present sum. Professor Taussig and Mr. Joslyn have been aided in the present survey...