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...British Ministry of Agriculture invited Oxford University to help farmers cultivate the soil, The response was immediate. Oxford will set up a Research Institute in Agricultural Engineering...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Oxford and Land | 4/14/1924 | See Source »

Frank A. Vanderlip, retired New York banker, whose repetition of rumors about impropriety in the sale of The Marion Star got him summoned before the oil investigating committee and verbally chastised, has set about the business of unofficial investigation. He founded the Citizens Federal Research Bureau to delve deeply into the corruption of Washington. To make it useless for anyone to do him harm in hope of stopping his earnest probings, he took out a $1,000,000 policy in favor of his Bureau. Sard he: "I am not only shadowed constantly, but so are those who come...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: Research | 4/7/1924 | See Source »

...come to Washington and care to inform yourself more fully, I shall be glad to place at your disposal information gathered by the Citizens' Federal Research Bureau, which I have founded for the purpose of stamping out the wholesale graft of all kinds that has been going on in the Federal Government...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: Research | 4/7/1924 | See Source »

These fellowships are given in electricity, physics, and physical chemistry, and are available to graduates of the universities, colleges and technical schools of the United States who have shown, by the character of their work, that they could, with advantage, undertake or continue research work in educational institutions either in this country or abroad. The committee in charge desires to award the fellowships to men who, without financial assistance, would be unable to devote themselves to research work. Six were awarded last year. Applications from Seniors as well as graduates will be allowed, but any award to a Senior will...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: APPLICATIONS FOR COFFIN FELLOWSHIPS DUE NEXT WEEK | 4/7/1924 | See Source »

...year from September 1, 1924,--Alfred Chester Hanford, Ph.D., Director of the Summer School of Arts and Sciences and of Education; Julian Laurence Holley, A.M., Benjamin Peirce Instructor in Mathematics; and James McCauley Landis, A.B., Research Fellow...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PRESIDENT AND FELLOWS ANNOUNCE APPOINTMENTS | 4/7/1924 | See Source »