Word: research
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...college has hitherto failed to meet, alleging lack of funds. Since 1878 the faculty have offered no course in astronomy whatever. This year, however, a determined effort will be made to do away with this deficiency. Mr. Wilson, who has for four or five years been engaged in special research in electricity at the Jefferson Physical Laboratory, has been appointed instructor in astronomy, and will take charge of a course in practical astronomy, consisting chiefly of laboratory work at the Jefferson and at the Observatory. The course will be designed especially to meet the requirements of students in the Lawrence...
...Comparative Literature are even more noteworthy additions. Take it all in all, the new sets of courses offer increased opportunities and a far wider range for every department of the University. When, however, we note the especial attention given to the higher courses, to the advancement in special research; when we consider the whole new department, the School of Pedagogy, which has been added for the benefit of teachers, and take into account that many of the summer courses, taken especially by the graduate students, are to be counted for the degree, we cannot close our eyes to the fact...
Princeton is going to send out a geological expedition to the West this summer for research...
RICHARD HODGSON, LL. D. on "Psychical Research." April engagements in Boston society: "Waifs from Harvard," in Sunday's Boston Budget. For sale at Thurston's and Amee Brothers...
Professor James gave a talk upon the Relation of the facts of Spiritualism to Religion before the Foxcroft Club last evening. He referred to the mass of material which the Society for Psychical Research have laboriously collected and sifted and stated that in his opinion these facts must no longer be neglected by the scientific man. The popular mind demands facts and objects to which it may pin its belief; miracles no longer furnish such realities. In the religion which 50 years or so hence will be grasped by the popular mind will be this necessity for something to take...