Word: research
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Estate of Robert C. Billings, 85,000.00 Estate of Henry L. Pierce, 15,000.00 Benjamin E. Cotting (proceeds of life policy to establish the "Cotting Gift" in the Medical School), 3,029.59 J. Randolph Coolidge (towards purchase of Riant collection), 2,000.00 Anonymous (to be used for original physical research), 250.00 J. J. Storrow and F. P. Fish (to purchase boiler and engine for steam launch for the benefit of the Department of Engineering), 550.00 J. H. Gardiner (to be added to Francis James Child Memorial Fund),60.00 E. J. Wendell (toward furnishing Brooks House), 50.00 Henry L. Higginson (deficit...
...back on the great theory of the metamorphosis of motion. The vibrations which produce the senses, says materialism, set the brain into motion, which in turn arouses consciousness and through it the nerves and the body are set in motion. This argument, however, must fall before the strictest psychological research. In reality the brain vibrations themselves set the nerves in motion, and in the circle from the sense vibrations to the resulting bodily movements consciousness nowhere enters in. Consciousness is not aroused by brain action, it is not a link in the chain of physical sensations and it need...
Professor Dyer is a graduate both of Harvard and Oxford, and was formerly Assistant Professor of Greek at Harvard. Of recent years he has been studying at the University of Oxford, and has been actively connected with the recent research in primitive Greek Art, especially in that of the Mycenaean Period...
...Fords' work, the result of thorough research and study of the question of sibilants, is in addition a well epitomized history of the growth of the Spanish language. The main purpose, however, is to account for the absence in modern Spanish of sibilant letters, with which all other modern languages are well supplied. Two hundred years ago it appears Spanish was as rich in sibilants as any other language. This is proved by the fact that Spanish is based on Latin, and, accordingly, ought to have as many sibilants as any other language of Latin origin. Moreover, an examination...
...great Serpent Mound of Ohio, which has long been a subject of study and research for American archaeologists, has been given by the Corporation to the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society. The mound has been in the possession of the Peabody Museum ever since 1886, when it was purchased by private subscriptions amounting to $6,000, chiefly from citizens of Boston. The understanding was that the Museum should take charge of the mound until some local society should be able to receive it. Of late years there has been great difficulty in taking proper care of the Serpent Mound...