Word: researcher
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Professor Peers founded the Modern Humanities Research Association, an international body for research in modern languages and literatures, and is now its secretary. He also organized a yearly vacation course in Spanish held in the north of Spain. He is an honorary member of the American Association of the Teachers of Spanish, and a corresponding member of the Hispanic Society of America...
...books charts manuscripts; there are museums of a dozen specializations in short Harvard has become a great storehouse of our knowledge of man's past and of the earth and of the universe before and beyond man's own little history. And with this storehouse it has affiliated research units to advance our knowledge of whatever is a too small or, too remote, or too old, or too complex for the human senses to make direct account...
Partly this vast and intricate equipment exists for research and scholarship, but it is chiefly arranged to the advantage of the students who in short generations use it and pass on. In the college and university world for a little while withdrawn from the instant demands of their times young men mature their minds and establish their bodies in healthful ways. At Harvard for almost three hundred years now they have been moving toward these ends in an atmosphere of traditions subtly and slowly changing and yet preserving something characteristic from the beginning. Once Harvard was small...
...articles on that and related subjects. In addition to his academic positions he has held many posts of importance in the scientific world and is at present managing director of the American Society for the Control of Cancer In charge of the Roscoe B. Jackson Memorial laboratory for cancer research at Bar Harbor Maine...
...Coolidge employs four means of studying the skulls: the voluminous literature on the subject, x-ray pictures, scale photographs, and comparative measurements. He devotes the major part of his study to the skull, as is the custom in scientific research. He studied over 400 of them besides examining many hides and skeletons which also show great variation and are of accessory value in classification...