Word: researching
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Twenty-four members of the Harvard Faculties and Scientific staff will receive awards from the Milton Fund for Research, for the year 1927-28, it was announced last night...
...Bigelow '01, Lecturer and Research Curator in Zoology, to study the dynamic cause of the Gulf Stream current off the North Atlantic-Coast of the United States...
...Diehl expressed approval, particularly from the viewpoint of the faculty. "This scheme, if effected, will enable the professors as well as the students to do a little individual work. Professors in American universities give so many lectures and are so busy it seems impossible for them to do any research work of their own, and this is obviously quite as much a part of their function as the instruction. Under the new plan, at least six weeks, little as that is, will be at the personal disposal of the professor...
Last week Sir Oliver Lodge stepped to a microphone and informed the British radio public that he had locked three women, a clergyman and two laymen in a room for the night. The room was an office of the Psychical Research Society. Sir Oliver asked the thinking public to think hard and write him letters later that evening, telling what the writers pictured the six prisoners doing. He gave a few hints?now the clergyman was holding up a playing card, now a layman was putting something funny on his head, now one of the ladies was exhibiting a picture...
...Wales on horseback, of Mona Lisa, of a spaniel, a cauliflower. Actually it was a Japanese print of two birds perched on a human skull. The nearest "thought" sent in was one describing the mask and derby hat worn at one point by Dr. J. V. Woolley, "Honorary Research Officer." And one telepathist accurately described a cardboard box with a scarlet lid which, though not used in the experiment, was present in the prisoners' room and might have come under observation during a period of concentration...