Word: researching
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Dates: during 1920-1920
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such an organization is the Harvard University Committee on Economic Research. This committee, now headed by Professor Charles F. Bullock, was appointed in the spring of 1917 with a view to making more adequate provision for scientific investigation in economics. Believing that its first enterprise should be in the field of economic statistics, Professor Warren M. Persons of Colorado College was engaged to make a thorough study of existing methods of collecting and interpreting economic statistics. Professor Persons was well known to the scientific world through various papers which he has published upon statistical methods and results...
...Overseers of the University will hold a special meeting today and tomorrow at University Hall to discuss with President Lowell and representatives of the Faculty the research work of the University. Last year the spring meeting was entirely devoted to college life and college administration. This year the Overseers will spend the full two days studying the contributions of the University to original research and the advancement of learning...
...clock a business session will be held, following which President Lowell, Professor Archibald C. Coolidge and Professor Charles H. Grandgent will speak on various phases of the problems of research. A collection of books written by living members of the Faculty will be exhibited to the Overseers in the Faculty Room...
Tomorrow morning at 10 o'clock a second session will be held at University Hall, when Professor C. H. Haskins and Dean Edsall of the Medical School will discuss with the Overseers various phases of research...
...meeting of the National Academy of Sciences held at Washington recently, three Harvard professors were elected members for their distinguished work. They were: Dr. William Duane, A.B. '93, A.M. '95, Ph.D. '97, Research Fellow in Physics at the Medical School, and member of the Cancer Commission of the University; Dr. George Washington Pierce, A.M. '99, Ph.D. '00, Professor of Physics, and Director of the Cruft Memorial Laboratory; and Dr. Elmer Peter Kohler, Ph.D., LL.D., Abbott and James Lawrence Professor of Chemistry at the University...