Word: research
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...light are resorted to. The book funds of the library, moreover, are becoming quite inadequate to meet the increasing demands made upon them. The library is forced to lay out each year about $5,000 for the purchase of that periodical literature which is the first necessity of special research. This expense, which cannot well be diminished, if the University is to fulfill one of its main functions by promoting special investigation, prevents the purchase of as much of the more lasting literature of books as is necessary to keep the library effective. This, says Mr. Winser, is "the main...
...need a better general room for the Library more than anything else; the Chemical Laboratory is so far behind the times that advanced work is seriously affected; the History department demands a reference library. We might enumerate other wants, all of which are of more vital importance than original research in the Veterinary School or a professorship in some other small department. These latter things are coming in time, we hope, but they are not yet necessary. It is much more important to try to help the great body of students than to try to increase the number...
...Veterinary School and Hospital have enjoyed their most prosperous year. They need new instructors, and, from the University point of view, it is desirable that the school should be a place of research as well as of instruction. For this an endowment of $100,000 is needed...
...Chemical and Physical Laboratories are active. An effort was made by Mr. Francis Blake to secure a fund of $100,000 to endow research in the Physical Laboratory. The disturbance of commercial credit in the autumn of 1890 arrested...
...provisions that no specific course, time, or residence shall be required for a degree. The theory of giving the students the greatest possible scope for individual work will also be followed in the adoption of the seminary system of lecture rooms. The provision for publishing the results of research will be ample. The plan of forming a special department for this work ought to encourage students and make publications more adequate than they would be with divided responsibility. The extension work as mapped out is also something broader and more systematic than has yet been undertaken...