Sponsored research
DOI: 10.1063/1.3061507
When we turn to the related function of a university, the advancement of learning, we observe that the past two decades have brought certain changes in the conditions and nature of research which embody some dangers and temptations to faculties and administrations alike. I refer of course to the great development of so‐called sponsored or project research of which the natural and applied sciences have been the chief, though not the sole, beneficiaries. The government has been much the biggest contributor to this type of research, a fact which in itself raises troublesome and critical problems still to be resolved.
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Harold W. Dodds, Princeton University.
