Word: research
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...which the course has been heretofore conducted. The lectures have been reduced to one a week, the study of the period which the course covers thus becoming a matter for the student to undertake in his own individual capacity, yet aided by the advice of the instructor. Original research in historical work has become during the last few years an important factor in the Harvard curriculum, and although the method pursued in History 12 can hardly be dignified by the above name, yet it will no doubt prove a most beneficial course of labor for all who intend to take...
Subjects and references for research were given out yesterday in Phil...
...believed that by a journal on this plan, combining some of the advantages of the review, the monograph, and the magazine, much valuable work which is now lost for the want of a proper medium may be brought together and saved, a stimulus may be given to scholarly research and discussion, and important assistance afforded to those who are interested in the solution of the great economic, financial and social questions of the day. And with this belief your co-operation and support are invited with confident hope...
...history connected with the period since the outbreak of the civil war. The work to be done will consist of a short and a long thesis by each member of the course. This plan must meet the approval of all college men who are interested in questions of original research, for the papers which the men in the course will prepare are intended to be real discoveries. Political matters of importance that heretofore have escaped the notice of historians or biographers are by no means few, we have good reason to believe. Last year discoveries were made by students...
...putting it to use. Her trustees have recently drawn up a series of regulations in regard to the John Tyndall Fellowship. The Fellow who is to be appointed on the recommendation of the president and the professors in the Scientific Department, must pursue a course of study and research in experimental physics for the term of one year. The first incumbent is Michael Pussin, who graduated at Columbia in 1883 with honors...