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FROM Armstrong College, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, we have received a report for 1935–36, somewhat belated, by the Standing Committee for Research. The importance of some of the work accomplished with the help of the Committee's small subventions (twenty-six grants amounting in the aggregate to £846) is well brought out in an eighteen-page summary prefixed to the individual reports of the recipients and list of publications. An obvious advantage of a fund such as that administered by the Committee, unappropriated in advance to specified fields, is that its administration compels representatives of different departments to take an interest in research in each other's fields, and this promotes inter-departmental collaboration in research, instances of which are cited in the report. Of the role of philosophy in the University, the Committee takes a liberal view, for it' refers to works emanating from the College's Department of Philosophy as "original contributions towards the formation of that background of knowledge which forms, or should form, the background of university education".
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Research at Armstrong College. Nature 140, 273 (1937). https://doi.org/10.1038/140273a0
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