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...commercial and financial. Course 3, Industrial History of England, a study of the successive phases of industrial organization with a view to tracing this aspect of social evolution. Course 4 is devoted to Socialism. Course 5, the Statistical Study of Certain Economic Problems, includes lectures on principles of statistical research; each member of the class undertakes the investigation of a particular problem, and reports the results of her inquiry to the class. Course 6, Social Pathology, is devoted to a study of the defective, dependent and delinquent classes, accompanied by discussions of methods of dealing with each...
...Europe there are two distinct systems of zoological stations, one in which the stations are connected with the different universities, the other of a more cosmopolitan character, offering opportunity for research to students of every kind coming from every portion of the world. Thirty years ago there was not a place on the sea coast where marine zoology could be studied, excepting in a private way. At present the most important stations are situated on the North Sea and on the Mediterranean...
Thus the students are enabled to remain at the laboratory of the station all the year around, and zoological research is consequently greatly facilitated. Here, also, the results of investigations are published...
...believe thoroughly that a course of lectures upon historic Harvard, would be not only of great interest, but exceedingly instructive. There are professors in the Historical Department that have made the history of early New England a subject of special study and research, and who, it is safe to say, are familiar with most of the earlier associations of the University. They are just the men to give such a course of lectures. We feel that the writer of the letter was justified in saying that few students know anything of the founding of their college, or of its growth...
...volume (1895) of L' Annee Psychologique is announced to contain several reviews of the work of Professor Munsterberg in various lines of psychological research. Also an article on experimental researches in Phonetics by R. L. Weeks '90 holder of a Parker Fellowship and now studying in Paris...