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...General Ideas as products of Imitation. The Social Factors in Mental Training. The "Psychology of Suggestion," and the Lessons of Modern Hypnotic Research...
...selection for premiums will be the same as that used in selecting papers for publication in engineering journals or society proceedings; that is to say, theses will be graded according to their apparent permanent value for the advancement of engineering practice or theory, either as records of original research. or as intelligent and concise discussions or critical summaries of older researches. Clearness. conciseness and care in summarizing conclusions will be essential merits for a high award...
...value students generally attribute to it. Few undergraduates can successfully prepare a brief, arrange its parts systematically and forcibly, and write an argument and refutation on that basis. To those students who do the work carefully and conscientiously the course is beneficial; it calls for a certain amount of research, of careful and systematic thought, and of effective presentation of arguments. It trains the mind, even if it be but a little, in logical reasoning...
...pamphlet has been issued by the Graduate School which gives some interesting facts in regard to this department of the University. It seems that the total number is 206; of these fifteen are nonresident, either studing abroad or engaged in scientific research in various parts of the country on fellowships and scholarships which are granted by the school. Eight are in Germany, one in England, one in France, one in Athens, and one in Honduras studying American Archeology. Eighty-three of the students have received there degrees at Harvard. The rest come from all parts of the country, representing...
...connection of the stars with ancient mythology or the treatment of the planetary system. We do not advocate a study which shall be technical or scientific or mathematical to an unnecessary degree, which shall assume much previous knowledge on the part of the student or call for any special research. What we ask for is a simple elementary course, adapted to a man knowing little or nothing of the universe about him and beyond our own world, a course, as we have said, that will treat of the heavens in the same fashion that Geology IV treats of the earth...