Word: research
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...strange that we should have but such a scant picture of his college life, which could hardly fail to be a remarkable one. We give the few faint glimpses that are afforded us by the excellent biography of the Rev. Dr. Little-kin, whose research has been both conscientious and scholarly...
...many, many years to come even the richest American universities will need to apply all the money they receive to the endowment of instruction and research (not separately, but together), the acquisition of grounds, buildings, collections, and instruments, and the enlargement of their means of providing a gratuitous education for promising young men of slender means. When these more pressing objects are accomplished, they may, perhaps, begin to think of offering money-prizes, accessible to rich or poor, for notable attainments at school and at the university, and of providing for the comfortable support of able young men, rich...
...startling as to cause Hamilton, that well-spring of eloquence, to withdraw at once from the Association. Next year literary meetings of the Association will be held before the oratorical contests, and at these meetings the successful competitors of previous years will read theses embodying the results of original research in their respective departments...
Though the priggish pronunciation "Inquiry" is often heard, I have never known justice to be done to discrepancy, chestnut, or hecatomb since in college, and rarely to romance, finance, research, and resource. I have no desire to discuss the much-mooted question as to where we are to look for the standard of pronunciation; we shall be undoubtedly safe if we follow the usage of the best literary society we know. New-Englanders boast that, within the radius of ten miles from the Massachusetts State House there is more "cultchar" and education represented than in any other district...
...three months ago took place, in which a couple of students and several police figured largely, I have been acting the part of a private detective, so to speak, and have endeavored, by probing the matter to the bottom, to find out the true cause thereof. After careful research, aided by a little personal experience with the "limbs of the law," I have come to the following conclusion...