Word: research
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Johns Hopkins University, that has been instrumental in publishing so many scientific journals, has now decided to bring out a journal for psychological research. A large part of this journal will probably be devoted to investigations in psycho-physics...
...Adams. (2.) Advanced Political Economy, including topics such as co-operation, finance, and taxation, under Dr. Ely. (3.) Roman Law, under Prof. Emmott. (4.) Historical Criticism, under Dr. Jameson. The methods of work may be classified. as threefold: (1.) Class lectures. (2.) Outside reading on specified topics. (3.) Original research, as evinced by essays and short monographs. The aim of instruction is to make the student self-reliant. Work is done rather by topics than by text-books...
...large and valuable library was found after a long and tedious research in the ruins of Nineveh. From this library we get our information about the knowledge of the Assyrians. The only other country whose history and civilization dates back to 4000 years before Christ besides Assyria, is Egypt. Most Assyrian monuments were built of brick, and therefore have almost entirely disappeared...
There are three dangers into which young students of archaeology are apt to fall and they consist in (1) a misconception of what constitutes thoroughness of research; (2) the detrimental predominance of the collector's frame of mind, and lastly the ill-judged and premarure introduction of allied studies into archaeology. People think it necessary to go back into the prehistoric development of Greek social life and art when they begin to teach archaeology. This would be more logical if the science were a more firmly established one. As it is, the true method of research seems...
...late it has become usual to form great generalisations about the origin of art, and the danger of following them in scientific research is that the student will leave the really important things that are at his door unexamined, while he follows out a theory that fletters his vanity and gives unbounded sway to his imagination and to his ingenuity. The safest method therefore is to base our observations and draw our conclusions from the actual historical facts at our disposal...