Word: researchers
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...case may be. He appears commonplace, quiet and orderly. But few would suspect the latent wealth of stone-throwing, howling and sign-disturbing possibilities that lies hidden away in his slight form. What causes these demonstrations? That is a question which has baffled the strongest light of modern research, and the problem is still wrapped in mystery. Begun in barbaric ages, when those who studied were supposed to be so exalted over the ignorant throng of townspeople as to be moving in a region of irresponsibility, these customs of college lawlessness have hitherto resisted even the march of the nineteenth...
...most heartily support the Advocate in its editoral article on retiring allowances for professors. It has long been a reproach to Harvard that her professors, when exhausted by a long life of mental labor and research, must expect no calm old age, but must continue on in the dull routine of lecture and recitation, until, like faithful and worn-out horses, they die still in the harness. The recognition by the College that it is a duty to provide for the declining years of those who have spent their youth in her service, not only ought to attract earnest scholars...
...such a nature that he will have to give up his course in History 9 for the rest of the year, and go abroad for his health. Not only has the course been an extremely interesting and instructive one, but it has shown an amount of original research that has been little appreciated, except by those students who have closely followed the lectures. And in this connection we cannot help saying a word with reference to the work undertaken by Mr. Snow. Called suddenly to finish a course of lectures began by another, his position undoubtedly is a difficult...
...Harvard a strong bias towards free trade for America, and leave College without the knowledge of a single argument on the other side of a question, perhaps the most important of the present day. Cases are not wanting where men thus carefully trained, have, from a little undirected research, become earnest converts to the doctrines of protection, not, of course, as a lasting principle, but as a matter of present expediency. Let us pay, if possible, a little more attention to this important subject, and whenever the question is alluded to in lectures or recitations, let us have a fair...