Word: researchers
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...from which are radiated vast influences upon American life; and the fact that it is our capital has made it the permanent or temporary residence of very many leading men, upon whom a university might draw for its lecture rooms and council chambers. Moreover, Washington offers advantages for scientific research, which can be obtained in no other city in this country. The Smithsonian Institute, the National Museum, the great government Surveys, sundry Government commissions and bureaus, whose work is largely scientific, and many retired officers of the army and navy, who have interested themselves in scientific pursuits, all combine...
...description of the Acropolis we have, and it is merely fragmentary. From the first book of this work Dr. Wheeler translated the description of the Propylaea and used it as the basis of his lecture, filling in the imperfect outline given by Pausanias with the details discovered by modern research. With the assistance of stereopticon views of the ground plan of both the Acropolis and the Propylaea together with views illustrating the architecture, he succeeded in giving his audience a very definite idea of the Propylaea and its surroundings. His study of the architecture of the building was particularly interesting...
...reference to the study of Homer, Professor Wright urged that the student approach him with the feeling that he is nearing a monument in literature; not to blend futile research into minor matters with the effort to appreciate the poem. This is not necessary. If the student will read the poems of Homer as a literature he will be brought into direct and vivid contact with the poet and will see and understand as by instinct...
...merely the scholarships and prizes. A false, superficial learning, a knowledge "crammed" just before examinations often serves as well, or better, than the more steady and real growth in knowledge. Again, the student narrows his work. He will not improve the many inviting chances for supplementary research and investigation which will broaden his whole knowledge of the subject at hand. Why? Because this is not required in the preparation for the all important examination. The rational part of the student becomes subservient to the selfish ambition which is spurring him on. He utterly disregards final success and devotes himself...
During the last year alone research has been carried on in many directions. Although the curator was not able, owing to the uncertainty of his movement, to carry on the usual researches at the Newport laboratory, still several representatives of the Museum availed themselves of the privileges of the Government Fish Commission station at Wood's Holl. Considerable material for special research was sent to several well-known scholars of zoology, and a few exchanges were effected...