Word: research
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...estimate properly. In a thoughtful and convincing article on "The Musician and the University," Mr. Echmann discuses the advantages to musicians of every type of a university training, and makes some timely suggestions to students interested in the critical and scientific side of music concerning possible fields for research, a phase of the art much cultivated in foreign universities but receiving little attention here. It is good to hear more definite news of the work of Mr. Paul Allen '03, who has made Italy his home and recently had his opera. "The Philtro," performed at Genoa. The Italian critics were...
There are two phases to the life of a college professor who holds any administrative post in the University. There is the executive work of administration of Department or Division or Graduate School and there are the scholarly achievements of research and writing. Unfortunately for purposes of division of labor the best administrators are often the finest scholars and one form of work often necessitates a crowding out of the other. It is, therefore, little short of wonderful that President Lowell, whose administrative duties are legion, has found time and energy in the last three years to prepare a volume...
...main object of the School of Classical studies is to encourage scientific research. In the past year there were about twelve students, men and women, in the school, working on different problems not only in classical subjects, such as topography, paleography and Roman religion but also in Renaissance art and Christian archaeology. The greater part of these students are sent as the men of greatest promise from the supporting American colleges. There are several fellowships for which competitive examinations are annually held in New York. These examinations are in charge of the Committee on Fellowships of the University Board...
Professor Rand's interest lay in the field of paleography, a subject for which there is abundant chance for research in the library of the Vatican. There have always been the most intimate relations between the Vatican and the school, and Father Ehile, the prefect of the library, is most courteous and helpful to the students in allowing them to use the valuable manuscripts of which he has charge...
Professor Rand is on the lookout for promising candidates, and he will be only too glad to talk to anyone who is interested in research work at the American School in Rome...