Word: research
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...instruction of the freshman year; and yet it has been rumored that it has been deemed best to make retrenchment in that direction. Now while Oxford has just stated afresh her doctrine that her professorships are established primarily for purposes of teaching and not for purposes of research, it would seem to be poor policy for Harvard to take measures for economy in her teaching force in preference to economizing in her expenditures in the cause of original research first. A truly liberal policy would call for attention first and foremost to the main objects for which the university...
...colleges. Ordinary salaries of professors are to be pound900, of some only pound400. Those receiving the larger sum are required to give at least forty-two lectures a year, and to set examinations, etc. The function of the professors is proclaimed to be teaching rather than research. Scholarships are to be obtained as before by competition; but a special fund is to be created for poor students. "These changes," says the Spectator, "are not revolutionary, but they are considerable, and it is of necessity impossible to criticise them, except in the light of future experience...
...higher and more recondite branches of learning, are sufficient evidence that this problem is present before the authorities-that is, "that ampler provision is required for teaching in a great number of more recondite subjects." (3) "Something should be done to enable the university to help original research." To a certain extent the scheme of an American school at Athens, in which Harvard has so much interest at present, may be said to be a move towards the solution of this problem. But it is doubtful whether improvement is so much needed in this direction as in what is comparatively...
...required for teaching in a great number of more recondite subjects, and encouragement should be given to men, who do not intend to pass through the whole university course, to come and attend lectures in these subjects. (4) Something should be done to enable the university to help original research, and to increase the number of residents who devote themselves to the pursuit of learning. At present large funds are wasted in what are called "prize-fellowships." Unfortunately the land revenues of the colleges have suffered from the competition of Western America, and money is wanting to carry out some...
...good manners and good morals, but determined by the quality of the best students rather than of the worst, admit to its instruction all persons competent to receive it, while jealously guarding its degrees, and promote among all its members a productive activity in literature and in scientific research...