Natural Science, Vol. 6: A Monthly Review of Scientific Progress, January-June, 1895 (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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ISBN 10: 1330398939 ISBN 13: 9781330398937

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Excerpt from Natural Science, Vol. 6: A Monthly Review of Scientific Progress, January-June, 1895

Next we think that it is a great blunder to include under the new provisions courses of special study. This is merely to open wide the avenues to an ordinary degree. If a man is competent to earn the distinction of a degree by a special course of study, he is competent to attain the degree in the ordinary way by reading for honours in one of the final schools. If the statute is intended simply to make it possible for men to obtain an equivalent of the degree in honours without going through an undergraduate career in the ordinary fashion, the idea of research should not have been connected with it at all. What the University should have done is sufficiently plain. There is. A certain learned pursuit known as research, and most familiar in the natural sciences, but equally possible in any subject. It demands Special aptitude, the guidance of those who are themselves investigators in its initial stages, at least, and it results in definite additions to our knowledge. If these additions, the results of research, are really additions to knowledge, they should be published. What is wanted is that men who have been taught at Oxford, at any university, or in any shape or form whatever, should be able to come to Oxford and to say: We desire, and think we have the capacity, to pursue original investigation in such and such a subject. It is then for the accredited representatives of the, subject in question to decide whether or no the Offer be plausible. If the candidates are accepted, it is for the University to give them their opportunity. Next for the Boards of Faculties to decide after a year, or what time they may deem necessary, whether or no it be worth the candidate's while to pursue his work. Finally, when the student has finished his piece of work and prepared it for publication, it is again for the Boards to decide, with the aid of a specialist where necessary, whether or no the definite addition to knowledge made by the candidate be of an order entitling him to be distinguished by a degree.

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• Verlag: Forgotten Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2015
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1330398939
• ISBN 13: 9781330398937
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 466
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