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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...elements in a volume as small as this, but Professor Hart has treated the subject in an interesting as well as an instructive manner. The various subjects of each chapter are printed in the margin at the beginning of their paragraph so that it is easy to find at a glance any special topic. Each chapter moreover, is prefixed by a large number of references carefully selected and arranged. There are five good maps showing the condition of the country from the year 1750 to 1829. Professor Hart has arranged the chief events of this period in a concise...
...temperance reform. Old people of ten tell us how very much worse things are now than they were many years ago. Let us look along the line and see for ourselves. Look at the attitude taken by church its whole position has changed in the last hundred years. We find that the church in the early part of this century was accustomed to pay. as a matter of course, bills to inn keepers for the lodging of the ministers who might be visiting a town, and on these bills we invariably find charged drinks of all sorts. We often find...
...once renew her original creative activity. For this, the example and influence of fresh creation were needed and Germany found this in the 11th century in France. There chivalric society was growing up as a consequence of Feudalism, and soon this society was to find expression in poetry. When this poetry came, it was almost at once imitated by the Germans. The poetry of Northern France passed over, mainly along the lower Rhine; the poetry of Provence, along the upper...
...same in schools of this country and the success or the failure of a student in passing an admission examination is due greatly to the way in which he is taught. It is difficult to decide upon any one system of instruction; students are perpetually being experimented on to find the best, and some teachers, partly by their personality, will succeed where others will fail. Still the method of instruction in some of our schools is woefully poor and it can be improved, though with difficulty fixed, for each year will bring a new improvement. The amount of time given...
...Much Gain for Either Side.Yale now started off to save the game, with the desperation for which the New Haven teams have always been noted. But the push-play which was tried against Newell netted only 3 yards, and L. Bliss did not find the hole through Upton and Lake that he expected, so the ball was once more passed to Butterworth for a kick...