Word: researching
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Plucknett '22, Assistant Professor of Legal History, for two years, to defray expenses of research incurred preliminary to the publication of the Year Books of the Reign of Richard...
...Saunders, Professor of Physics, to purchase a Moll Recording Microphotometer for use in research of the structure of spectra...
...research work in American institutions of higher learning generally regarded as an avocation carried on at irregular intervals snatched from class and lecture work? This question is brought home in striking manner each year when the awards from the Milton Fund are made public...
Harvard is undoubtedly more fortunate than many other colleges and universities which are not blessed with an annual income of $50,000 devoted solely to research in various fields of activity. How various and how important those fields are only a cursory glance will show. Mr. Bigelow will study the dynamic cause of the Gulf Stream; Mr. Cabot the effects of prison terms upon the future careers of men; Mr. McAdie the electrification of fogs and clouds in order to improve weather forecasting; Mr. Schlesinger the urbanization of population between the Civi War and 1900. These are typical examples...
...generous as the Fund is, it cannot wholly satisfy the necessities for scholarly and continuous research. The awards are limited to a period of two years. They are granted to men most of whom are carrying courses at the spine time...