Word: research
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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President Eliot delivered a decidedly interesting lecture last night to the members of the Harvard Gradu-Club on "Research and Publication as University Functions." Although this subject is relatively a new one, the president has given it his attention for a number of years...
GRADUATE CLUB.- Meeting in Union Club Rooms, 414 Harvard St. this (Friday) evening at 8 a. m. President Eliot will speak on "Research and Publication as University Functions...
...Mather's essay showed extensive preparation and exhanstive research...
...director, and gives as encouraging an outlook as could be expected. The object of the school is to furnish an opportunity to study Classical Literature, Art, and Antiquities in Athens, under suitable guidance, to graduates of American colleges and to other qualified students; to prosecute and to aid original research in these subjects; and to cooperate with the Archaeological Institute of America, so far as it may be able, in conducting the exploration and excavation of classic sites...
...this age of special research the college laboratory is an indispensable agent in the work of personal investigation to which modern students are devoted. This work of investigation is expensive, and it is only the richly endowed colleges that can afford to fit out proper laboratories. At such a rich college, then, as Columbia one expects to find laboratories in which some of the scientific investigation of the day is being carried on. Not even here can such good results be obtained as in Germany where investigators like Dr. Koch receive liberal subsidies from the government...