Word: researchers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...confusion currently engulfs the cum laude degree in General Studies. The official ruling states that students with honor grades may in "exceptional cases" be recommended by both the department in which they are concentrating and the Administrative Board for the degree. This degree does not require the intensive, specialized research usually connected with honors. In practice, General Studies degrees are awarded for a wide variety of reasons, for each department has its won interpretation of an "exceptional case...
...year-old dean came to Harvard in 1935 from Vanderbilt University to assume the posts of research Professor of Clinical Medicine and Dean of the Faculty of Medicine. An earlier connection with Harvard occurred in 1934-35, when Dean Burwell was Cutter Lecturer on Preventive Medicine...
There is little question that the money could be better spent in a program of federal aid to education, increased pay to teachers, raiding the educational standards of the South, a system of government scholarships to non-veterans and veterans, research in the non-military use of atomic energy and in a dozen other ways that would improve our living standards...
Exams do not foster original research and discovery, he said. "Highest intellectual achievement does not come from a military discipline, but from the student's own belief in the importance of his work...
...musical instruments. Before long, Adrian had secretly mastered the keyboard, discovered double counterpoint on his own and become the apple of the local music teacher's eye. Author Mann, who played the violin as a boy, held long conversations with his friends Igor Stravinsky and Bruno Walter as "research" for Faustus, and has packed his book with an impressive and at times annoying display of musical knowledge that will be over the heads of most readers...