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...annual meeting of the trustees of the Peabody Museum of American Archaeology and Ethnology, at Cambridge, was held on the 17th instant. The treasurer announced that he had received $900 from subscribers in aid of American research, in addition to the $2550 mentioned in the last annual report, and the curator was authorized to expend the same for the continuation of explorations under his direction. The curator, in presenting his report, stated that he had also received $775 for special purposes, of which $550 were for Miss Fletcher's researches among the Indians. Twenty-five free lectures were given...
...instrument. Most commonly the observer has no special plan and spends many hours without result, while the same time might have been employed with equal pleasure to himself and results of great value collected. Those who have not tried it do not realize the growing interest in a systematic research and the satisfaction in feeling that by one's own labors the sum of human knowledge has been increased...
...senior exhibition of Colby University took place at the Baptist Church in Waterville last evening. Eight members of the class gave original pieces, in which much study and research were displayed. The junior parts assigned for scholarship were rendered with credit as follows : Latin oration, Henry Kingman, Boston, Mass.; French, Schailer Mathews, Portland; English, Willard C. Clement, Brandon, Vt.; Greek, Edwin P. Burt, Chelmsford, Mass...
...chief advantages enjoyed by students at Harvard is the wide range of study and research afforded by its advanced elective system. Here almost any subject, with its various modifications and departments, can be taken up, and under professors who have made life-long studies of their respective and special branches, pursued to the very limits of human knowledge. There are courses so admirably arranged and instructed that one, after spending the ordinary college course of four years in the pursuit of a special line of knowledge, finally appreciates his own incapacity, in the contemplation of the immensity and scope...
...United States have been those afforded by the private laboratory of Mr. Alexander Agassiz at Newport, and that of the United States Fish Commissioners at Woods' Holl, under Professor Baird; and before the opening of the Chesapeake Zoological Laboratory, the founding of a marine laboratory for advanced research had not been attempted in this country by any educational institution...