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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Forum--"Musical Review," by Henry T. Finck '76; "Review of Sculpture," by Russell Sturgis '78; "Educational Research: A Test in Arithmetic," by J. M. Rice...
...especially worth the reading are "Philosophy 5" and "Sciurus Carolinensis"--themes taken from out the very heart of college life. Nothing is oftener attempted than undergraduate experiences in research courses, but in "Philosophy 5" the topic receives an originality and sprightliness of treatment that lifts it above the ordinary. "Sciurus Carolinensis"--on the Yard squirrels--is a gracefully accomplished attempt to make something out of apparently little. Its passing glimpse at an interesting fact in college history clearly demonstrates where lies the most profitable field for the magazine...
Professor F. Y. Edgeworth delivered the third of his lectures yesterday evening on "Value in a Regime of Monopoly." "Recent American research," he said, "has obtained the best available answers to the practical questions relating to Trusts. Abstract theory can only suggest some general views. It may be questioned how much the terms given by a monopolist are worse for the public than those which would be obtained, under like conditions, in a regime of competitors where the number of competitors is small. The oppressiveness of monopoly seems to disappear when the system is supposed to become universal: those...
Professor Royce, the first speaker, made the subject of his remarks certain problems that confront those who are actively engaged in the advancement of special research and graduate work in America. An English observer feared that we pay too little attention to developing the undergraduate in our endeavor to secure success in special research. These ideas in regard to graduate work suggest to us in America a warning. We must be careful not to lose sight of our ideals, nor of our general culture in the all-absorbing work of our special research. And yet there is no reason...
...should cultivate and preserve a sound literary ideal; second, he should become acquainted with the lives and ideals of the scholars who have done great work in his particular branch of study; and third, he should become conscious of the methods of work in his special field of research...