Word: researching
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...prize of $1,000 will be offered next year for the advertisement most effective in its use of the display line. In addition there will be awards offered for the most effective use of text, of pictorial ilustration, and of typography. The award for the best advertising research has been discontinued because of the belief of the University authorities that this award had not been a stimulus for more effective research work. The prize for the best combination use of text and illustration has also been discontinued...
...number and quality of the visitors who resort to the forest," he continues. "During the present year the Forest has been shown to more than 150 men, most of them scientific or professional, who came to Petersham to study the demonstrations of forestry in practice or the methods of research. Among them were the chief of the U. S. Forest Service with a party of supervisors of Eastery national forests, the State Forester's Association, numbering 60 men from 20 states, the director of the Forest Experiment Station of Sweden, together with a number of American forest research...
...character of the students who come to the Forest for advanced work or research is also significant. Of the five who are registered for 1927-28, all are men from established positions in state or federal service, two from experiment stations and three from executive or extension departments. These five represent as many schools of forestry: California, Minnesota, Pennsylvania State, Syracuse, and Maine. At the last Commencement seven degrees were given, six masters in forestry and one doctor of science. These men also were from widely scattered localities and were in general capable of doing productive advance work...
...purpose of the Observatory," in the words of its founder, "is mainly research, free from prescribed duties and independent of outside control...
There is one article in this issue that might well have been omitted, in the opinion of this reviewer. Mr. Robinson contributes an essay on Carl Sandburg which seems more in the nature of a bit of scholarly research than material for the Advocate. The article is beyond doubt well written, but it bears an atmosphere suspiciously reminiscent of reports and tutorial labors. The familiar essay seems more in keeping with the spirit of the Advocate than any scholarly treatise on the subject of one of our modern poets. But then, the editors are apparently seeking to publish a well...