Word: researching
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...regents' resolution was occasioned by an offer of $600,000 from the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research at Wisconsin. Without making their self-denial retroactive to previous gifts from the "lobbying" oil interests, the regents refused. Regent-Novelist Zona Gale filled a page in The Nation with their reasons, which boiled down to: the social danger of domination by wealthy donors and civic pride in the fact that Wisconsin stands fifth among state-supported universities in the size of annual appropriations, its income equaling revenue from an endowment of 20 millions...
That the teaching staff would be handicaped by the policy, that a falling off in research work would handicap local industries, that discouragement of research reversed a Wisconsin tradition of "fearless sifting and winnowing" for truth...
Professor Richards has now received honors from nearly every country in recognition of his work in chemistry. In 1914, he was awarded the Nobel prize for chemical research...
...questionnaire asks two questions mainly, the recipients thesis topic, and topics in which he has special interest outside of his field of research. The responses which have so far been received have answered these questions fully and enthusiastically. The Graduate School Society will start on the work of organizing the discussion groups within the next week...
...certain American doctor believes that he has discovered a means of ascertaining the weight of the brains of living human beings by taking certain measurements of the heads. He is now asking the government to establish him in a laboratory at Washington where he may do further research work. Part of his program would include an examination of the heads of Senators and Representatives, after which he might send a record of their brainweights to their constituents...