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...believed that by a journal on this plan, combining some of the advantages of the review, the monograph, and the magazine, much valuable work which is now lost for the want of a proper medium may be brought together and saved, a stimulus may be given to scholarly research and discussion, and important assistance afforded to those who are interested in the solution of the great economic, financial and social questions of the day. And with this belief your co-operation and support are invited with confident hope...
...history connected with the period since the outbreak of the civil war. The work to be done will consist of a short and a long thesis by each member of the course. This plan must meet the approval of all college men who are interested in questions of original research, for the papers which the men in the course will prepare are intended to be real discoveries. Political matters of importance that heretofore have escaped the notice of historians or biographers are by no means few, we have good reason to believe. Last year discoveries were made by students...
...putting it to use. Her trustees have recently drawn up a series of regulations in regard to the John Tyndall Fellowship. The Fellow who is to be appointed on the recommendation of the president and the professors in the Scientific Department, must pursue a course of study and research in experimental physics for the term of one year. The first incumbent is Michael Pussin, who graduated at Columbia in 1883 with honors...
...special probation could be given preference to those of intimidating freshmen. Another suggestion would be to have "checks," as in many tonsorial establishments. A man could go in at 3, take a check, see how many were ahead, and spend the intervening hour or so in profitable research at the library...
...training is very desirable. The two sayings of "Room on top," and "Go West" are of little value. There is room in the lower half of the profession. Over half of medical practitioners are successful. As in law, the man who has an air of confidence, a taste for research and knowledge, a practical mind and a kind heart, will gain success...