Word: researching
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...gift of Senator and Mrs. Guggenheim. The entire income totalling $143,000, is devoted to the award of Fellowships to scholars and artists who have demonstrated unusual capacity for productive scholarship or remarkable creative ability. The stipend is usually $2500 and offers, opportunity to carry on research and creative work abroad. For he 1927-28 grants 600 applications were received...
Only from men whose meaning is not yet altogether clear is there great promise - Robert Frost, Vachel Lindsay - and from the new attitudes of science: pure research and speculation; the translations, such as A. N. Whitehead's Science and the Modern World, of science into full human existence...
...Since the extinction of the Australian natives, Dutch New Guinea very probably is able to boast, the most primitive peoples still in existence", declared P. T. L. Putnam '25, who has recently returned from a sojourn in the Malay Archipelago where he was doing anthropological research under the auspices of the Peabody Museum. "New Guinea," Putnam went on to say, "In its interior is a country even less known than the interior of Africa and in its mystery rivaled only by the wilds of Brazil...
...entirely new field of post -graduate research for Harvard men has been opened up by Vassar College, which has announced that it will hold a summer school for husbands...
...there is also a pseudo-scholarship. There is the scholarship that is an essential part of the cultivated man who has made himself the intellectual master of some subject of broad, human interest. There is the other kind of scholarship that satisfies itself with the minutiae of scientific research in literature or history, that dissects some unimportant subdivision of a subject, and that demands of its students anything but a human interest in it, in the field of true scholarship, publication is a gift to the civilization of the time. In the other field: very little of what is published...