Word: researching
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...year, no suitable candidates appear, the sum available is to be set aside in a separate fund, which may be used to help the Harvard University Press, defray expenses incurred in publishing Fogg Art Museum publications and the work produced by any of the Shady Hill Research Fellows...
...National Jewish Hospital has as director of its research laboratory Harry John Corper, Chicago-born pathologist. He has as co-worker Nao Uyei, U. S.-educated Japanese organic chemist. The two pottered around with sputum, acids, dyes and mediums on which bacteria grow. And eventually they found that sulphuric or hydrochloric acid would best dissolve the elements of the sputum undesirable in isolating the tuberculosis bacteria, that crystal violet dye best brought out the shape of the germs, that they flourished best on a chunk of potato. Now practically every tuberculosis hunter uses their test...
Professor Ben D. Wood of the Educational Research Department at Columbia is the originator of the "Cumulative Education Record Forms." He, friend of English Master John A. Lester of The Hill, spoke to him about his forms, how they could help the school, how the college might be aided by them in its annual selection of potential freshmen. Dr. Lester and Headmaster Wendell benefited much from Dr. Wood's "cumulative forms" in devising the Hill method of recording progress and achievement...
...assistant professorship in my possession I have now just reached the point where I can appreciate the teaching possibilities of my position. I should like to settle down for ten years and devote my best energies toward perfecting myself as a teacher. But no, I must speed up research, publish, produce otherwise I'm soon out of the race entirely...
...more and more dependent on tutors and instructors. As the gap widens between lecturer and student the tutor's position becomes increasingly important and increasingly difficult. And at the same time it becomes always more impossible for the tutor to discharge his teaching functions in odd moments stolen from research. Unless the future is to see more emphasis placed upon instruction than on publication, unless tutors, in particular, are to find effective teaching as good a guarantee of promotion as rapid book production, the value of Harvard's educational efforts is in danger of suffering serious decline...