Word: research
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...hard to see how he can unlearn the teaching he has received, and alter the character that has been formed in him. The grown man is what he has been taught to be, and out of cram may come many examination answers, or even a Fellowship, but not original research and the love of knowledge for its own sake...
...pity. That there can be any knowledge outside of the curriculum of the University, or if there is, that it is of any value, is not dreamed of. The specialist who pleads in behalf of another kind of learning is considered a fanatic. "We don't want original researches," I have heard it said, "but good all-round men," that is to say, the best specimens of the crammer who have a smattering of many things, but know nothing well. But how can it be otherwise? Men whose whole attention has been given to discovering what will...
...PEABODY, D. D., L. L. D.- LITTLE, BROWN, AND CO. The latest work by Dr. Peabody is a masterly translation of Plutarch's essay entitled, to render it literally "Concerning those who are punished slowly by the Divinity." The volume before us is the result of careful labor and research, containing. besides the translation, a full introduction, and elaborate foot notes. The work will be an important addition to the libraries of all interested in the study of Christian ethics...
...popular. Conducted by Prof. Bartlett, it is a great addition to the German department. The new courses, Political Economy 10 and History 20, open only to graduates and other students of advanced standing, are destined to be very valuable. They are both intended for "special advanced study and research," and will doubtless be of great practical worth, requiring as they do original work. Such courses must always be regarded as marks of growth and advance in their departments. Prof. C. J. White's new course, Mathematics 12, comprising "Descriptive and Spherical Astronomy," will be welcomed by the students of astronomy...
...Dean's report, our esteemed contemporary will find that in the year 1883-84, the most popular courses in our college were not by any means the "snaps" or easy courses that appear in our elective pamphlet, but that, on the contrary, the hardest courses, those requiring the greatest research, and the most original thought, the courses in History, Philosophy, Political Economy, the languages and the sciences were elected by a very large number of students. The best system in any department of work can be abused, but the abuses of the elective system at Harvard are the exception...