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...investigation of the origin and cure of cancer. In the event that thereafter the opinion of the President and Fellows of said College such investigation shall have been satisfactorily concluded. I authorize the President and Fellows of said College to devote such income to such other medical investigation or research as in their judgment will most largely benefit the physical wellbeing of mankind...
Probably the largest part of this bequest will be spent in research work, in which the Cancer Commission has been particularly successful. Last year the discover by Professor William Duane '93 to be use of newly-found varities of X-rays in the treatment of cancer was considered one the most important steps her made in the history of the investigation of cancer...
...thousand dollars in prizes will be given this year to American students by the Frances D. Pollak Foundation for Economic Research. One prize of $500 will be awarded the best essay written by an undergraduate in a college or school of college grade. Five hundred dollars will be given to the student in high school or other school of secondary grade, and $1000 to any student, without restriction, submitting the best essay. To be considered in the contest, an essay must be not more than 10,000 words in length, and be on one of the following subjects...
...Pollak Foundation resembles the Carnegie and Rockefeller Foundations, but is confined to research and education along economic lines. The following have been appointed by the Foundation to judge the essays: W. B. Donham '99, Dean of the Graduate School of Business Administration: Irving Fisher, Professor of Economics at Yale; and W. C. Mitchell, Director of the National Bureau of Economic Research...
...this University experiments are continually being made, the most recent of which Professor Day termed an "Undergraduate Research Course". The student in such a course no longer works out set problems from a text book. He is obliged to select from his field of concentration, whatever it may be, problems or subjects to which he must apply in his own way the methods taught in the course. This plan is being adopted with success in a number of the college courses this year...