Word: nineteenth
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...said to have been created within that period. The work to be done by the dentist, and his materials and apparatus for doing that work are, for the most part, applications of three sciences: chemistry, physics, and biology, which have each made rapid progress since the middle of the nineteenth century. To the progress of applied chemistry, dentistry owes a large number of valuable new materials. Teeth used to be filled with gold, or other pure metal, chiefly in the form of foil, but now gold and other pure metals are used in many different forms. Alloys, or mixtures...
...Cook in 1775. Their origin is doubtful, but they probably came to Hawaii about 1000 years ago from the other islands of the Southern Pacific. In religion they were heathens, worshiping many minor gods and one supreme deity, until the coming of missionaries in the early part of the nineteenth century. Up to 1750, each island was a separate monarchy, but in that year one king succeeded in conquering the others, and Hawaii remained one united kingdom until 1895, when a republic was established. The Spanish-American war undoubtedly hastened its annexation to the United States, as a coaling station...
...with unanswerable force that the field of human knowledge had long been too vast for any man to compass; and that new subjects must be admitted to the scheme of instruction, which became thereby so large that no student could follow it all. Before the end of the nineteenth century this was generally recognized, and election in some form was introduced into all our colleges. But the new methods brought a divergence in the courses of study pursued by individual students an intellectual isolation, which broke down the old solidarity. In the larger institutions the process has been hastened...
...Prospect Union will open its nineteenth year of work in Cambridge next Monday evening at 744 Massachusetts avenue. The Union is an educational and social club for men, conducted by wage-earners and by students, and teachers from Harvard University. Its object is to extend to working-men opportunities for elementary, technical, commercial, and higher education, through evening classes and lectures, and to bring into mutually helpful contact working-men, students and teachers...
...nineteenth annual tournament for the Harvard Interscholastic tennis championship in singles will begin on Jarvis Field this morning at 9 o'clock, and will continue through Monday...