Word: research
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Professor Whiting was an instructor in physics at Harvard for some years after his graduation. He resigned his position in order to take a trip abroad for study and research. His trip to Europe extended over several years. While abroad he wrote a book on general physics. He later wrote several supplementary books on the same subject...
...charge of the course in Psychology, which has been under Professor Munsterberg. The course in Ethics has been dropped, and a course in ethical thought has been substituted, which will be under the direction of Dr. Santayana. A slight change has also been made in the courses of Philosophical research. In the Department of Philosophy, two courses in education and teaching have also been added...
...Harvard is primarily that of a university. - (a) Elective system. - (b) Prominence of the graduate school. - (c) Growth of the Lawrence Scientific School. - (d) Importance of courses of research; Charles Gross in Educ...
...interesting talk on the investigations which he has been making during the past two years on certain oxines related to mallic acid. The meeting was the only one of the kind which has been held this year, and was especially instructive in showing the difficulties of this sort of research...
...principally at Argive Heraeum and Eretria, in both of which places discoveries of a most interesting nature and scientific value were made. Professor Waldstein would rank these excavations with those at Olympia at Epidaurus, and on the Athenian Acropolis, and prospectively also with those at Delphi. The climax of research was the unearthing of the beehive tombs of the Mycenaean period, which had been sought in vain for several years. The vases found therein were nearly all in perfect preservation and the positions of the bones found massed together would indicate that the bodies were not laid out. Eleusis, Euboea...