Word: seminar
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Dates: during 1882-1882
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These lectures are supplemented by the politico-economic Seminar, which is organized as a department of the university. Its object is to provide opportunities for those who wish to make a specialty of economics. It is a society of students under the direction of a professor. It meets for two or three hours, regularly, once a week, sometimes oftener. The exercises consist of essays by the students on subjects suggested by the director, followed by discussion and criticism of them. At the beginning of the term the professor prepares a list of subjects, theoretical, practical and historical, from which each...