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Object to Encourage Research...
...main object of the School of Classical studies is to encourage scientific research. In the past year there were about twelve students, men and women, in the school, working on different problems not only in classical subjects, such as topography, paleography and Roman religion but also in Renaissance art and Christian archaeology. The greater part of these students are sent as the men of greatest promise from the supporting American colleges. There are several fellowships for which competitive examinations are annually held in New York. These examinations are in charge of the Committee on Fellowships of the University Board...
Professor Rand's interest lay in the field of paleography, a subject for which there is abundant chance for research in the library of the Vatican. There have always been the most intimate relations between the Vatican and the school, and Father Ehile, the prefect of the library, is most courteous and helpful to the students in allowing them to use the valuable manuscripts of which he has charge...
...five, the number required of the average student to four. In many departments the new system carries with it exemption from examination until the end of senior year. The extra hours, made possible by the reduction of the number of required recitations, the student may use in doing independent research work...
...Granger Movement. A study of agricultural organization and its political, economic, and social manifestations, 1870-1880." (Harvard, Historical Studies, Vol. XIX). By Solon J. Buck, Ph.D., Research Associate in History, University of Illinois, Svo. Cloth. 384 pp. $2.00 net. An analysis of conditions among the farmers throughout the country during the decade 1870-1880, and a discussion of the relation of the farmers' organizations to railroad regulation, co-operative ruling, and other political and economic problems...