Word: researching
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Seven members of the staff of the Harvard School of Architecture will go abroad this summer for research work in Europe while three are following out work in this country. Two of these men, Professor G. H. Edgell '09, and Professor S. F. Hamblin, have been granted sabbatical leave for the coming academic year, and will continue their work throughout the winter. The research will be widely varied in its aspects, covering Swedish architecture. French water colors, English landscape and domestic architecture, a study of the ruins of the Romanesque monastic group at Cluny, as well as American city planning...
While Professor B. W. Pond '01 is collecting data and photographs of country estates and gardens in England, other members of the department will cover the general field of landscape architecture and city planning. Professor B. V. Hubbard will direct city planning research work in this country under an appropriation from the Milton Fund, and Professor HAMBLIN will devote his time to writing...
...Rhodes scholarships in 1904 more than six hundred graduates of American colleges have made use of them to study at Oxford. Now these alumni of the great English university are planning to show their appreciation by raising an endowment fund to be used by it for building and research purposes or, if it prove necessary in later years, to supplement the original Rhodes Fund...
...moot point debated at the meeting of the American Association for Cancer Research at the same congress. Should chronic gastric ulcer be regarded as borderline cancer and operated upon accordingly or should it be treated as a simple ulcer? Dr. William Carpenter MacCarty, head of the cancer research division of the Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minn., thought it partook of the nature of cancer; 12.5 per cent of all chronic gastric ulcer cases observed at Rochester had died of cancer within 12 years. He was supported by Dr. James Ewing of New York, opposed by Dr. Aldred Scott Warthin, president...
...many purposes rubber from the guayule shrub is better than tree rubber, announced the U. S. Bureau of Standards last week after long research with chemists of the Intercontinental Rubber Co. This company (Charles Hamilton Sabin, chairman of the Guaranty Trust Co., is also its chairman) has been cultivating this shrub (the only shrub that so far has been commercialized) in Mexico, California, South Carolina, Georgia and Mississippi. Thomas Alva Edison has an experimental farm in Florida. Others work in Texas. The shrub thrives in arid regions, and can be cultivated and harvested by machines. Last year guayule shrubs yielded...