Word: encyclopaedia
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...following books are missing from the Library of the Union and should be returned immediately: "Fables in Slang," "Encyclopaedia of Etiquette," "Tom Brown's School Days," "Tom Brown at Oxford," "The Mystery of the Woods," "The Story That the Keg Told Me," "Crown of Wild Olive," "Queen of the Air," "Wages and Capital," "English Poets...
...every forty college graduates now living has attained recognized distinction of some sort in the country; and that one in every ten thousand, who have not received the benefit of higher education, has attained similar success. The classification of 15,138 conspicuous Americans whose names appear in Appleton's Encyclopaedia of American Biography shows the following result: College Graduates. From Academies. Non College Percentage of College Men. Scientists, 341 25 164 64.30 Educators, 625 42 345 61.76 Clergymen, 1505 59 1080 56.92 Lawyers, 841 68 769 50.12 Physicians, 427 36 449 46.82 Authors, 415 39 668 36.99 Statesmen...