Word: research
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...factors of Bible study are the spirit and the method. The spirit must be one of reverential, yet voluntary historical research. The spirit must be historical, because in order to understand the writer's language we must be acquainted with the usages of his time. The method must be above all an independent one, and one like the method adopted by the student in other college work. It must be a comprehensive method. Professor Harper said that the Sunday School and Bible teaching of today was doing actual harm, because entered into in a compulsory spirit...
...order to promote advanced study and research in the Modern Languages and Literatures, the departments of English, German, French and Romance Philology have decided to establish a Modern Language Conference. The first meeting will be held on Wednesday. May 14, at 4 p. m., in Sever...
...Winsor began by dwelling on accuracy in historical statement. We are often deceived by the disguises of truth. She is hidden from us by strange raiments and only sharp eyes and learned research can unmask her. We must have the courage of the moth and let our wings be singed by approaching the light. No historical statement can be final, and it is this very uncertainly that keeps research perennial. The successful historian employs the same talents as the successful merchant, penetration and keen judgment of character. But in history we must never forget how important the personal basis...
...German university, like so many other German enterprises, is a government institution and the university system is well nigh perfect. The instruction differs from that usually given in our American universities in that the regular professors give instructions in the most elementary parts of the science, while the research is conducted by the youger...
...American student is treated with great consideration at the German universities, and while the elementary part of the science is as well given in America as in Germany, the chance for research is not so good here in America as abroad...