Word: research
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1890-1899
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...ARCTIC EXPEDITION FOR COLLEGE MEN!- This expedition is intended both as a means of recreation and scientific research. It will consist mostly of college students and professors, and rare opportunities are offered to those who are interested in geological work, as well as to sportsmen, who will be given exceptional advantages for hunting. Parties from Yale and other leading universities have been booked. The number will probably be limited to fifty. I shall be glad to confer with any Harvard students or professors who may desire further information in regard to this trip...
...ARCTIC EXPEDITION FOR COLLEGE MEN!- This expedition is intended both as a means of recreation and scientific research. It will consist mostly of college students and professors, and rare opportunities are offered to those who are interested in geological work, as well as to sportsmen, who will be given exceptional advantages for hunting. Parties from Yale and other leading universities have been booked. The number will probably be limited to fifty. I shall be glad to confer with any Harvard students or professors who may desire further information in regard to this trip...
There is a movement on foot in the English universities to render their postgraduate research departments more popular among foreign students. The reason that these universities are not more popular among advanced American students is because they have no post-graduate work, in the American sense of the term. The "Tripos" system at Cambridge of dividing all men into three classes of honor at the final examinations, demands most sever work with a coach for a long succession of years, and, after the final examination upon the success or failure in which depends the whole work in the previous years...
...German and Japanese law, which are studied along with French law. In the scientific department considerable original investigations are carried on and the results are published from time to time. The prevalence of earthquakes in Japan has made the science of seismology one of the most prominent fields of research...
...second floor are two laboratories for research and advanced work, three private laboratories for the professors' use, and a balcony for out-of-door work. The library is on this floor and is completely furnished with chemistry text-books and journals...