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...need a better general room for the Library more than anything else; the Chemical Laboratory is so far behind the times that advanced work is seriously affected; the History department demands a reference library. We might enumerate other wants, all of which are of more vital importance than original research in the Veterinary School or a professorship in some other small department. These latter things are coming in time, we hope, but they are not yet necessary. It is much more important to try to help the great body of students than to try to increase the number...
...provisions that no specific course, time, or residence shall be required for a degree. The theory of giving the students the greatest possible scope for individual work will also be followed in the adoption of the seminary system of lecture rooms. The provision for publishing the results of research will be ample. The plan of forming a special department for this work ought to encourage students and make publications more adequate than they would be with divided responsibility. The extension work as mapped out is also something broader and more systematic than has yet been undertaken...
...Copley" medal for 1890 has been awarded to Professor Newcomb of Johns Hopkins University, by the Royal Society of Lodon. This medal is yearly given to that man who has given the most valuable aid to scientific research during the year. It was first given to Benjamin Franklin. It is the highest honor ever attained by a scientific man to receive this medal...
...original investigation of some definite form of Chartly-work, with practical conclusions drawn therefrom. The other prize will be assigned for the best original investigation of some special phase of the Labor Question, with practical conclusions drawn therefrom. It is the intention of the founder to encourage first-hand research into present social conditions, and he indicates, though he does not prescribe-such subjects as the following...
...first of the series of Historical Monographs is a discussion of "The Veto Power: Its Origin, Development and Function in the Government of the United States," by Mr. E. C. Mason, instructor in Political Economy. The monograph, the result of special research under the direction of Dr. Hart, opens with a sketch of the derivation of vetoes from the royal prerogative in England. It goes on to discuss vetoes in United States history, under the heads of vetoes affecting the form of government, the distribution of its powers, and their exercise. Each class is elaborately treated. The occasion of each...