Word: earths
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...American people can confer, which should make your president necessarily mean, sordid, selfish, ambitious and untrustworthy. On the contrary, the solemn duties which confront him tend to a sacred sense of responsibility. The trust of the American people, and an appreciation of their mission before the nations of the earth, should make him a patriotic man; while the tales of distress which reach him from the humble and the lowly, from the afflicted and from the needy in every corner of the land, cannot but awake his tenderest sensibility and his kindest impulses. [Applause...
...forests in this country and in Europe has been so great that many have estimated that, if the present wholesale cutting is continued the Rhine, Elbe and other important streams will become unnavigable. The evidence of history is so marked that there can be no doubt but that the earth's crust is becoming deeper and that the cutting of forests has aided in this process. Governments have seen this and have established forestry bureaus for the preservation of the forests...
...Romulus and Remus are in love with Proserpina; they fight a duel about her, and Remus is killed; Romulus descends to Hades to recover his brother's soul, and finds Proserpina there on the same errand; Pluto falls in love with Proserpina and refuses to let her return to earth; the difficulty of providing a bridal trousseau is solved by the property manager, and the play ends in a blaze of red fire and a wild dance of demons, and condemned souls. Following is the cast: Romulus, (red,) Remus, (blue,) L. Anderson, L. Honore; Pluto, W. H. Rand, Jr.; Charon...
...preliminary stage of instruction, no text book is used except by the teacher; the pupils are encouraged to obtain their ideas from actual observation and practice. They are told in a more or less general way about the cardinal points and the course of the sun and earth in the heavens. A mastery of this subject is given them, not by forcing them to commit the compass card to memory, but by telling them to find the direction of their own homes from the school room, and many other such practical ways. The teachers make tours with the pupils...
Sexta (lowest class) - Leading principles of physical geography, general view of the earth, geography of Saxony, exercises in map reading and drawing...