Word: research
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...curatorship, also, the Museum of Comparative Zoology has been so arranged and remodelled as to leave to Mr. Agassiz's successor, should he resign, as he at present intends, a thoroughly manageable institution with a distinct policy and an income adequate for the normal expenses, including expenditures for research and publication...
...Attica. Two hundred years after Christ, the last word concerning Delphi was heard, and from that time until comparatively lately it has remained buried in the deepest obscurity. In 1840, Dr. Ottfield Muller went to the site of Delphi and his work showed the opportunity for discovery and research among the ruins. Twenty years later another attempt at discovery was made by the French. America had no hand in the work until some eleven years ago Gen. Meredith Read, the United States Minister to Greece, interested himself in the matter. He was soon recalled from Athens, however...
...Rutan and Coolidge, the successors of Richardson, are to stand in the center of the broad plain occupying the greater part of the tract. The purpose of the plan, so far as represented, is: first, to provide for convenient and economical use, by large numbers, of the means of research and instruction to be offered in the central buildings; second, to provide in the arrangements devised for this purpose an outward character, suitable to the climate of the locality that will serve to foster the growth of refined, but simple and inexpensive tastes; third, to favor the formation, in connection...
...with those obtained by a similar examination of other objects and phenomena, endeavoring to ascertain what they may have in common. Thus he is prepared to formulate general statements. From such inductions he proceeds to justifiable deductions. and thence to inductions of higher orders. His most useful instruments of research are hypothesis and experiment. The demands made by the scientific method wherever employed are very numerous, but of these only, four need now be considered: (1) Singleness of purpose, the only object being the attainment of truth. All preconceived notions liable to mislead must be laid aside. (2) Directness...
...American Society for Psychical Research held a public meeting last Wednesday evening in the rooms of the Boston Natural History Society. Professor William James, of Harvard, was in the chair in the absence of the president, and received the reports of two committees: one on Mediumistic Phenomena, and the other on Phantasms and Presentiments...