Word: research
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...host of suggestions as to the correct way in which a course of study in English literature should be carried on. We do not wish to censure our critic or criticise the ground which he has taken, but in a course which is so given up to independent research and individual work as English VIII, the criticism must be considered as slightly hypercritical. If Byron was a brute, we want to know it just as distinctly as to know whether Wordsworth was after all a wingless angel. Yet, it is true that the rehearsal of personal memories at times grows...
Exploration has been largely the work of the school. Dr. Sterrett has made several expeditions and his collections of inscriptions form a valuable prize for classical research...
...seems to me, is not by far so difficult as seems to be generally supposed. Let us imagine that we had a National Scientific Association, composed of the foremost scientists in the country, and that this association had a fund from which it could offer prizes for original scientific research. The honor itself of gaining such a prize would be a sufficient stimulus for many a young man, whether in college or out, and the distinction thus won would be a great help to him. By this plan the deserving and gifted young man would be brought to the front...
...subjects, and, too, there are the freshmen who did not have the chance to attend the Free Trade and Protection lectures last year, all of whom are left with only one way open to the information desired, namely through the library. Now this is a subject which requires, in research, great trouble and a large expenditure of time to the novice, and so on account of pressure of other studies, many men are cut off from this last resource and put at a disadvantage upon ground they feel, in very truth, to be secure...
EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON. - In this university of specialists and specialized research, it seems as if one branch of study was becoming restricted beyond the point of advisability. Reference is made to the theme work of the present sophomore class. Perhaps there has been enough written pro and con on the English courses and the methods in use, but objection can still be made in one direction at least. Criticism figures first and foremost in almost every part of required work in sophomore English. The second and third themes are in themselves supposed to be criticisms, and after these each student...