Word: research
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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...mind for research and a heart that felt...
...important mission of our newspapers and magazines is to bring before the great body of the people the best ideas known concerning pressing practical questions. The editors themselves rarely have time for much research and reflection, but they are eager to get the opinions of men of acknowledged weight. What the country needs is the presence of a large class of thoughtful and able advisers, who, like Mr. Woolsey (lately President of Yale College, "our foremost rival in good works") shall raise the tone of the public press on questions of "morals and politics, law and government." "The rudiments...
...there is another aspect of the case which is all important. When examinations are based wholly upon a syllabus, the students are encouraged to rest content with superficial study; at other times there is a tendency, at any rate, to force those who wish to distinguish themselves to wider research...
...they can be obtained in a cheap form, some of the following historical monographs will be read in the course. If not these, others of the same character. Founders of the American Union, by Dr. Bluntschli; Origin and Nature of Feudal Institutions, by Dr. Kuhns; Laws which govern Historical Research, by Professor Von Sybel of the University of Bonn; and essays on different periods of German history by various other writers...