Word: researchers
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...mark given in a special course on a thesis differs from that given in the English department can be explained by the fact that although in a forensic matter is regarded of prime impostance, still form is also to be taken into consideration, and more than this original research can hardly be expected in a forensic. In the case of honor theses, this is not true. Although a man is not always expected to advance new and startling theories, still an amount of original work and study of authorities is expected which can easily explain why a theses that...
...called upon to make a great sacrifice, which is more than should be expected of him. The meagerness of the average professor's salary often compels some of our ablest instructors to give their best talents to writing elementary text-books, and leaves no time or opportunity for scientific research and inquiry. The results of this are seen at every American college. The time which should be occupied by our old and able professors in individual research and higher instruction is often almost entirely taken up by elementary instruction, such as could be given as well by younger...
...annual meeting of the trustees of the Peabody Museum of American Archaeology and Ethnology, at Cambridge, was held on the 17th instant. The treasurer announced that he had received $900 from subscribers in aid of American research, in addition to the $2550 mentioned in the last annual report, and the curator was authorized to expend the same for the continuation of explorations under his direction. The curator, in presenting his report, stated that he had also received $775 for special purposes, of which $550 were for Miss Fletcher's researches among the Indians. Twenty-five free lectures were given...
...instrument. Most commonly the observer has no special plan and spends many hours without result, while the same time might have been employed with equal pleasure to himself and results of great value collected. Those who have not tried it do not realize the growing interest in a systematic research and the satisfaction in feeling that by one's own labors the sum of human knowledge has been increased...
...senior exhibition of Colby University took place at the Baptist Church in Waterville last evening. Eight members of the class gave original pieces, in which much study and research were displayed. The junior parts assigned for scholarship were rendered with credit as follows : Latin oration, Henry Kingman, Boston, Mass.; French, Schailer Mathews, Portland; English, Willard C. Clement, Brandon, Vt.; Greek, Edwin P. Burt, Chelmsford, Mass...