Word: researches
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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What Psychical Research has Accomplished...
What Psychical Research has Accomplished...
...there were more academic distinction to be gained by winning one of these prizes, they would undoubtedly attract more attention than they do at present, and it seems as though every possible means should be taken to gain this end; for, as incentives to original research and means of raising the standard of scholarship they cannot be valued too highly. It has always been the custom, however, not to award the prizes until autumn and then there is no special occasion at which the names of the winners are announced together. As a result most students never even hear...
...Department of Physiology in the Harvard Medical School offers to four qualified men positions as assistants in Physiology with a salary of four hundred dollars. It is expected that these men will give the mornings of the collegiate year to research, and the afternoons to the direction of undergraduate students in experimental physiology, under the supervision of a professor of the department. These men will thus gain experience in the administration of a large laboratory as well as instruction in the methods of investigation and practice in presenting the subject to younger students...
...provision which Harvard makes for this two-fold training is unexcelled. The research work in the history and economic courses, and the excellent training given in English 10, 30 and 6, as well as the opportunities offered by the Freshman Debating Club, the Forum and the Union are indeed valuable. The plan of supplementing this training with such lectures as those by Colonel Higginson and Mr. White re-enforces in the most excellent way all that is thus taught the undergraduates...