Word: centralization
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...University of Chicago has three new publications-the Botanical Gazette, the American Journal of Theology and the University Record. The North Central Association of Colleges met there last week. The association comprises all the universities, colleges and secondary schools of Ohio, Michigan, Indiana, Illinois, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa, Nebraska, Missouri and Kansas...
...lack of homogeneity in Romanesque architecture makes it desirable to separate it geographically into its Lombard, Central and Southern development...
...collection of photographs has been sent from the Observatory to the exhibition of the American Society of Natural History now being held in the Museum of Natural History, Central Park and 81st street, New York City. The collection comprises about twenty-five 11x14 photographs, partly of celestial objects and partly of views from the observatories of Cambridge and Arequipa...
...Salter of Philadelphia lectured last evening in Sever 11 on "Walt Whitman-his significance as a poet." The lecturer said he would not discuss the poetic value of Whitman's work; he wished merely to show his thoughts. The central point of Whitman's poetry seems to have been the significance of individual existence. He looks on every man as a separate personality, whose place neither in time nor eternity can any other take. This presupposes a peculiar view of human nature. We are used to contrasting the littleness of self with the greatness of nature. Whitman stands at ease...
...shown you that there are fatal objections at the present to the issue of the entire volume of our paper currency by banks; that the legal tender system possesses the positive advantages of economy, and of relieving the strain upon the world's gold supply; and, lastly, that the central objection to this system is wholly without foundation...