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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...
...necessity the main function of a university always has been, and must be, teaching. It is, in a word, to bring the most highly educated youths of the time up to the limits of education. But from this there spring other functions, among which the first is research. In all advanced subjects the teacher is continually attaining the limit of that subject, and is, therefore, eager to reach out a little beyond this attained knowledge. In turn such a teacher is surrounded by eager and enthusiastic men and is certain to attract them into the research that interests...
Greatly stimulated by recent developments, research has almost become a universal test of professorship, for the teachers who do not stimulate their students to research are not likely to be successful in the lower parts of their subjects. especially in the scientific studies...
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...