Word: stealth
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...colleges and universities is primarily directed to increasing the number of students, buildings and degrees conferred. The professors are so loaded up with the routine teaching and such an unconscionable amount of administrative work, that he who would engage in genuine scientific research must do so by stealth and at the expense of his health. Nor do we provide many incentives for that kind of work. The public reward and recognition extended to technologic promoters is out of all proportion to that extended to scientific achievement itself-witness the millions of people who have heard of Edison...