Word: mons
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...TOWNSEND, and J. B. LEWIS. General References. Means in North Amer. Review, vol. 139, p 51; Chas. Francis Adams in Atlan. Mon. vol. 37, p. 360; Hadley R. R. Transportation, especially chap. 10 and 13; Hudson: Railways and the Republic; J. S. Mill: Principles of Pol. Econ. Bk. v. ch. 11; Dr. Green in No. Amer. Rev. vol. 137, p. 422; Henry C. Adams in Amer. Econ. Asso...
...earnest and scholarly spirit predominates in the work done here. Last year the Dean pointed with pride in his report to the fact that a large proportion of the men who had been dropped had regained their regular standing, thus showing that the percentage of really lazy and indifferent mon in the college is small. The proportion of dropped men who regained regular standing last year is not stated in this year's report, but from the tables published it is a fair inference that it did not decrease. All these facts which go to show the seriousness which...
...yearly. - (b) Would stimulate our ship yards. - (c) The example of Norway and Germany a wise one to follow. - (d) The carrying trade employs fifty times more men than the shipbuilding industry; Kelley, p. 31. - (e) With "free ships" we should rival England on the sea; Atlantic Mon., vol. 47, p. 174. - (f) Free ships would stimulate American invention, in building and handling ships...
...Revels of Mon Marcel" is one of the most powerful stories which has appeared in the Monthly for some time. Its author, Austin Smith, has slipped out of the beaten tracks and given us an original and strongly-executed sketch of a man who is entirely removed from the common-place, for Dufont, the hero of the tale, has an individuality so strongly marked that he rouses one's interest at the opening of the story. He was a man who "at times looked like a devil that had been chained up by society and taught to walk...
...Greenough White's Bible class which has been meeting on Wednesday evenings, has taken up the following subjects: Babylonia; Persian mon archy; Post-exilian psalms, giving aims and emotions of Jews; formation of Old Testament canon; the Temple and Synagogue and great influence on early Christianity of Jewis ideas, strengthened by contact with Persians. Last Wednesday night Haggai was studied from a literary standpoint, and approached as a preacher or writer of our own time. Five points of interpretation or higher criticism were considered: character of author; plan of composition of the prophecy; date of composition; the people to whom...