Word: researching
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...University Committee on Economic Research has proved the practicability of a scientific effort to forecast business conditions. Since 1917 the committee has been making an intensive study of fundamental business statistics with a view to extending their scope and usefulness for commercial and scientific purposes. In 1919 the idea had proved to be of such value that the committee started the publications which have developed in the present system of weekly letters outlining in a simple understandable style the economic conditions, business fluctuations, and any issues of timely interest in the business world...
...France for his technical works on geography as well as for his popular articles on the subject, will give a half course on the geography of northern Africa and the Near East, known as Geography 8, which will be open both to graduate students and undergraduates, and also a research course primarily for graduate students. During his stay at the University he will occupy the rooms in Grays Hall which were formerly occupied by Professor William H. Schofield A. M. '93 and were endowed and dedicated "to the hospitable uses of the University" according to the terms of Professor Schofield...
Most of the departments of the Boylston Chemical Laboratory are to keep short hours for the next three weeks. The Elementary and the Higher Course Laboratories will be closed during the entire period, but the three other main divisions, the Research Laboratories, the Library and the Main Store-room will remain open to students who may have occasion to use them in preparation for the examinations in Chemistry. The former department is to keep hours from 8 to 5 o'clock, and on Saturdays from 8 to 1 o'clock, while the latter will be accessible from...
...recognition of the Landscape Architectural School as the center of research for city planning was shown by the appointment of Miss Theodora Kimball as an expert to assist Secretary Hoover's committee on zoning. Miss Kimball's service, which has been arranged in a way not to interfere with her duties as Librarian to the School, consists in collecting and arranging information on zoning...
...intimate relation with the Faculty of Medicine. The Foundation proposed, if this were done, to assist in developing the School. The suggestion was in the direction of expanding what we have been doing, and was accepted gladly.. . . The School will have for its object both instruction and research in the field of public health, and its courses will be open freely to students of the Medical School. . . . The plans for the organization of the School are now under consideration by a committee composed of future members of its staff...