Word: researchers
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Tuesday, March 3. The present condition of physical Research, by Prof. Geo. S. Fullerton of University of Pennsylvania...
...instructor's lecture, not only for the purpose of having a synopsis of the work and a guide for outside reading, but also because there are some things which he says which it is impossible to find elsewhere, or, if to be found at all, only after toilsome research. If the disagreeableness of note-taking were the only drawback, we would have little to complain of; but the great trouble is that while industriously taking down some important portion of thought, and are henceforth unable to profit by the instructor's remarks. If, now, there were in our curriculum...
...observations have been very numerous. The comets have been one of the special features. The "standard time" has been introduced and some new instruments have been invented to aid in astronomical research. Another book of Obervatory Annals and many small treatises have been published. These cover the work of the whole year and are of much value in that branch of science to which they pertain...
...culture, separating itself gradually from the ancient civilization out of which it grew. To day this modern society has reached its maturity. To Erasmus the ancients were models of living; even Goethe considered the Greeks as unattainable ideals of beauty and greatness. For us they are the objects of research and criticism. It would be absurd to educate our boys as if they belonged to the age of the humanists. What we want above all is to make them understand their own world, the people of which they are a part, the life of nature about them, the men among...
...contained 2,000 volumes of valuable works relating to classical study. All the leading archaeological journals are received at the school and the advantages of the library are thrown open to the use of the English and American residents. The various departments of the school are engaged in archaeological research, and the present management has insured flourishing results...