Word: research
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Copley" medal for 1890 has been awarded to Professor Newcomb of Johns Hopkins University, by the Royal Society of Lodon. This medal is yearly given to that man who has given the most valuable aid to scientific research during the year. It was first given to Benjamin Franklin. It is the highest honor ever attained by a scientific man to receive this medal...
...original investigation of some definite form of Chartly-work, with practical conclusions drawn therefrom. The other prize will be assigned for the best original investigation of some special phase of the Labor Question, with practical conclusions drawn therefrom. It is the intention of the founder to encourage first-hand research into present social conditions, and he indicates, though he does not prescribe-such subjects as the following...
...meeting of the Electric Club last night, Dr. Wilson, who is at present engaged in especial research at the Physical Laboratory, gave an exceedingly interesting lecture on the subject of magnetism; he brought out a number of points with great clearness, illustrating them by means of experiments with ingeniuos apparatus of his own make. Dr. Wilson has kindly consented to leave his apparatus at the club rooms for the benefit of members who were unable to be present...
...first of the series of Historical Monographs is a discussion of "The Veto Power: Its Origin, Development and Function in the Government of the United States," by Mr. E. C. Mason, instructor in Political Economy. The monograph, the result of special research under the direction of Dr. Hart, opens with a sketch of the derivation of vetoes from the royal prerogative in England. It goes on to discuss vetoes in United States history, under the heads of vetoes affecting the form of government, the distribution of its powers, and their exercise. Each class is elaborately treated. The occasion of each...
...only be studied through the outside world by means of science. The object of science is to make out through experience the spiritual laws that govern the world. Thus thinkers of the early part of this century were idealists by nature but scientists by profession, uniting empirical research and philosophical thought. The doctrine of evolution is to comprehend the world of experience by means of idealistic postulates...