Word: america
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Repetition is another feature of composition which is not thoroughly understood here in America. In fact our architects are afraid of it, having seen its baneful effects in the series of contract built houses which deface New York's streets, but it has been used with great effect, notably in the Palais Royal. Contrast is the bringing together of two great qualities or forms which are in opposition to one another. It is one of the salient features of the Spanish renaissance...
...Powell, who is well known as the leader of university extension work in America, is making arrangements for an historic pilgrimage which he has planned in connection with the Philadelphia summer meeting of the University Extension. The historical pilgrimage is the latest addition to modern methods of historical study...
...world, and which only four white men are known to have visited. Another object of the trip is to gather collections of the fauna and flora of Labrador, about which little is definitely known, for the interior of this country is the largest unexplored tract of land in America. The expedition will leave New York in the latter part of June, to return by the first of October. The party will be composed in the main of Pennsylvania students...
...rapid development of the country, and the construction of bridges, railroads, modern buildings, and the like, calls for a large number of trained engineers, and to these the Science and Technology departments give a course of training which ranks with the best that is given in Europe and America...
...University of Pennsylvania has the oldest and largest medical school in America...