Word: life
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...teach, is entirely different from that: it is an empirical science based almost wholly upon careful field work among savages and primitive peoples. It embraces craniology, the minute study of savage languages, myths, religious rites and ceremonies, and the primitive industries, modes of warfare and habits of life...
...needed a common protection in commerce bound themselves together into the Canadian Federal Union. Its executive power is vested in its governor-general appointed for six years who has the power of pardoning all offenses. He is assisted by thirteen cabinet officers. The legislature composes a senate appointed for life, a house commons of 215 members, who are elected for a term of five years. The judicial power is vested in five judges whose decision can be refuted only by petition to parliament. The government of the several provinces is on the same principle...
...memorial window is being placed in Sage chapel at Corne 1 by the students in civil engineering in memory of Edward S. Nevins, '90, who lost his life last winter while attempting to rescue a young woman who had fallen through...
...given by a few gentlemen who desire their names to remain unknown. The object of the new chair of instruction is, as expressed by the donors, to impart an intelligent apprehension of the English Bible, with a view to stimulating an earnest Christian faith and developing a manly Christian life. In commemoration of the late President Woolsey the professorship will be called the Woolsey professorship...
...Chauncy Langdon, the subject being "The Problems of Modern Society." Seven of the most sociological critics of America have formed a group for the purpose of discussing social problems, in a series of essays of which this is the first. Miss Susan N. Carter contributes a paper on "Street Life in Madrid," with several picturesque illustrations. Another of Frank R. Stockton's amusing stories is begun in this number, called "The Merry Chanter." Mark Twain publishes some extracts from his new book, "A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court," which have all of his old humor. The new serial...