Word: america
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...eminently fitting, at an exhibition of every thing showing the great advances we have made in the last century, that the Universities should be well represented. It will show to every visitor of the Fair that the Universities of America are full of energy and that they are accomplishing good work, and, if such a things is possible, it will raise them in the estimation of the people. There is an endeavor now being made to have college journalism represented. Such an exhibit will certainly be interesting and will afford an excellent opportunity for everybody to compare the merits...
...Wolffe spoke first. He treated his subject from the economical standpoint. In America every man's opinion has its weight and the majority wins the day. The majority advocate the opening of the fair on Sunday. Take the churches in Chicago, they will not hold one third the people at the fair. Where then will they go if it is closed. Part will go to the saloons and others to places equally harmful. Open, is the cry of labor organizations, and they are a large part of the people...
...Thwaits was the next speaker. In Europe, said he, the laborer in many cases does not have Sunday as a day of rest but seeks to gain it in many ways. America is looked upon as a place where Sunday is kept sacred. At the fair there will be 25,000 or more men engaged in work and it will be a great injustice not to give them one day of freedom...
Justin Winsor's Columbus Day address. "America Prefigured" is printed and Col. Thomas Wentworth Higginson contributes some interesting extracts from old college diaries...
...From 1839 to 1843 he was the professor of mathematics and natural science at the Albany Female Academy, and during this time he lectured on Chemistry at Newark College, Delaware. In 1843 he went to Germany where for two years he studied chemistry under Liebig. On his return to America he was appointed Rumford Professor of applied sciences at Harvard. He resigned this office in 1861 and since that time he has devoted much of his time to the study of chemistry and to chemical manufactures. In all he has taken out about thirty patents, most of them...