Word: america
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Comment on the fact that a turkey is a native of America, and was so named because its wattle was of the color so long known as Turkey red. What does this show as to the age of turkeys? What is the age of this turkey...
...Congressional Record of Dec. 17, 1886, containing an account of the proceedings which have been taken in the U. S. Senate by Mr. Gorman to insure a memorial of the one hundredth anniversary of the constitution of the U. S., and the four hundredth anniversary of the discovery of America by Columbus. It is proposed to celebrate the first of these two great events in 1880 and the latter in 1892. The last celebration will include a permanent exposition of the Americas and will be carried out on a grander scale than any exposition which has ever been seen...
...RANTOUL.There will be a meeting of the Finance Club this evening at 7.30 in U. 13 Messrs. Duane and Robbins will discuss Mr. Ely's book on the Labor Movement in America...
...press teems with the well-grounded self-congratulations of Harvard and Yale. Princeton is, in name, about to become a university, while we at Pennsylvania are content to hide our light under a bushel. We have a corps of professors at least equal to that of any institution in America: we have open to us courses of study in all directions; we can become classical scholars, philologists, mathematicians, engineers, chemists, botanists, financiers, biologists, physicians, dentists, veterinary surgeons, lawyers - in the different departments which our Alma Mater provides for our use. We draw students from all over the world; no college...
Heidelberg is poor, and some of its younger men are very poorly paid, but the smallest income of any full professsor is about $1,500. If this seem small it is to be remembered that the average professor's salary in America is scarcely more. Relatively few colleges pay over $2,600-$2,200. On the basis of the bare figures alone, the Germans are better off; the advantage of cheaper living and different social requirements is clear gain. The grevious side of the German university cereer is the period of probation; the Privatdocent butters his bread with hopes...