Word: researcher
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...hospital grounds has been started. Plans for the Institute of Human Relations building, to cost $2,000,000 have been completed, and it is hoped the building will be ready in about fifteen months. Among the unique architectural features of the Institute, which is to be a center for research in biology and sociology at Yale, are a residential unit for the study of child development, a residential and treatment unit for the study of mental efficiency and mental diseases, modern laboratories for psychological investigations, and facilities for research in sociology, including social psychology, economics, and government...
...Little, former president of the University of Michigan, and recently elected president of the American Society for the Control of Cancer, studied at Harvard after his graduation. For two years, from 1911 to 1913, he was research assistant in genetics, after which he was for four years research fellow in genetics...
...research is made possible by lands from the Rockefeller land...
What do the authorities of Yale mean by putting out at this time news of the thirty-six degrees of Doctor of Philosophy granted to students doing special research? The intention can scarcely be to attempt to offset Yale's football victory over Princeton. What are Doctors of Philosophy compared with makers of touchdowns? There would seem to be danger that magnifying merely scholastic news may tend to throw the pale cast of thought over the team when it goes to meet Harvard...
...advantages of the two solutions are obvious. For the comprehensive examination the student must do independent research, and is held for a knowledge of one particular field. His interest in that work is greatly stimulated. When undergraduates and professors are associated in a like activity their intimacy is inevitable; and this in turn leads to a common intellectual interest and a common place of work. Here may be found an atmosphere where minds may grow, and, "by attrition," to repeat President Lowell's words, "provoke one another." Daily Californian...