Word: research
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...every new person to whom he was presented was greeted by him as if this person might prove to be the friend for whom the seer had been looking, but whom he had hitherto failed to find. The expectation of the serious part of the community today, from the research of the scholar, the insight of the philosopher, and the vision of the prophet working upon the world laid open in the life of the saint, is vast, and it may be, that the Harvard Theological Review will answer this expectation in a new and in a great...
...style known as Harvard brick, laid up with light joints and Flemish bonds. In the basement there is a machine room, supply rooms, a dining room and a kitchen. The second floor contains laboratories, offices, and a directors' room, and the third floor is made up of research rooms...
...College Grindstone." The article is entirely in line with the recent speech delivered by Owen Wister, in which he deplored the lack of American scholars. Its substance is that American teachers are so over-burdened with academic duties that they cannot give the time and energy necessary to individual research, and that American scholarship is sacrificed to instruction...
...unexplored regions of literature, art and science. Ours is the development of "second-string" men, who, while profiting themselves by the words of eminent authorities, will pave the way for a gradual improvement in real scholarship. To our undeveloped minds this ideal seems nobler than devotion to original research, and until financial resources make possible the parallel development of the two ideals, we must hold that the leading authorities of American universities are justified in devoting their energies to the propagation of learning which is valuable although...
...precedent by allowing a bas-relief to be placed in the building, this project was abandoned. It seems a pity that some form of memorial to Professor Shaler cannot be placed where it will recall his memory to all undergraduates. The bas-relief in the Scientific School and the research fund are very fitting tributes, but their scope is necessarily restricted. If a bas-relief would detract from the home-like atmosphere of the Union, would it not be possible to substitute a portrait? Among the many remarkable qualities which were Dean Shaler's his unfailing interest in the undergraduates...