Word: coming
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Society now buys direct from the best American manufacturers or imports through the special agents of the leading foreign producers without difficulty; and a close examination of the stock in the department will convince anyone that excellent goods are offered at low rates and that the department has come to stay...
...Society now buys direct from the best American manufacturers or imports through the special agents of the leading foreign producers without difficulty; and a close examination of the stock in the department will convince anyone that excellent goods are offered at low rates and that the department has come to stay...
...investigate whether light is a manifestation of electricity or not. Professor B. O. Peirce and Dr. Wilson are trying to determine the rate of flow of electricity into large reservoirs, for instance, into cables; in this investigation the greatest accuracy is necessary, as extremely small fractional parts come into play. Professor J. Trowbridge and Dr. S. Sheldon are at work on Electro motive forces, while Professor J. Trowbridge and Mr. Sabine propose to study the surface to the moon and determine its character by means of the absorption of the ultra-violet rays by surfaces of rock, ice and snow...
...Goethe as a man, however, that we may know his true worth. With a view to the study of Goethe's life and works the Goethe society was organized. This society is engaged particularly in examining the manuscripts of Goethe, which, owing to the extinction of his family, have come into the possession of the German government. The light which these manuscripts have thrown on Goethe's writings and character is invaluable...
...will agree, is that a tuition ought to be charged in the high and normal schools, and the money so received directed to securing better teachers and more thorough instruction. If this plan should be carried out it is thought that not only would young men be able to come to college, and go into business earlier, but that the practice of "jumping college" would be put a stop to, which means that a large proportion of our business men would receive a much fuller and more complete education...