Word: research
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...university. A description of the new Jefferson Physical Laboratory and the advantages which it offers is the most noticeable addition to the new volume. Besides this, there is the new Channcy Wright prize for a mathematical thesis, and a description of the valuable Boylston prizes for medical research. The Lee prize-reading having been discontinued, all mention of them ceases with 1883-84. These few additions and changes, together with the new names and rank of the students are the only points which make the new catalogue different from its immediate predecessor. And now that a suitable binding has been...
...insufficiency of the present arrangements to meet the demand for reference books, by its purpose of issuing a pamphlet with condensed notes of the important facts to be learned. This is a makeshift that deprives the student of the very great beneficiary which is to be derived from individual research...
...student." These in brief are the principal features of the new work. While the book is founded on Mr. Mill's work, there is so much that is new and original that it is really more Prof. Laughlin's book than Mr. Mill's. The whole book indicates research and care, and reflects credit in every way on the college as well as on the editor...
...University of Pennsylvania has organized a new department of biology for experimental research as well as teaching of the higher class. At the head of the faculty is Dr. Joseph Leidy professor of anatomy and zoology. The new department will receive women as well...
...difficulty, as by the regulations which attend their disposal they are to be given to students carrying on their studies at Cambridge who can give evidence by certificates or other wise of their fitness and training for the work which they intend to undertake. The opportunities for a thorough research in any one study are excellent here at Cambridge, both from the nearness of our city to Boston and from the library of the university, in addition to the usual opportunities which are offered by a university of the size of Harvard...