Word: periodicities
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Thomas Jefferson at an early period mastered a system of education for Virginia but he only established what we might call the steeple of the church without the church. He nevertheless woke up a band of thoughtful men in the South who believed in and later acted upon his ideas. The Civil War prostrated all educational plans completely and from 1860-1870 the Southern States were more lacking in schooling than any other people in the world within the last fifty years. When the war finally ended colleges and academies immediately sprung up, but nobody could afford to send their...
...this period, late in life, Moliere was suffering from the disease which eventually caused his death. He was almost broken down by ceaseless mental labor. He was unhappy in his home relations as well, embittered by family quarrels...
Geological Conference. Papers: The Theories of Ocean Currents. Professor W. M. Davis; Recent Subdivisions of the Glacial Period. Mr. R. A. Daly. Geological Laboratory, Room...
Geological Conference. Papers: The Theories of Ocean Currents. Professor W. M. Davis; Recent Subdivisions of the Glacial Period. Mr. R. A. Daly. Geological Laboratory, Room...
...trace the history of the English language back to the Anglo-Saxon tongue, we pass over a period when French words came in great quantities, the time of the Norman Conquest. This foreign tongue brought with it many alterations to the native tongue. Just so the Latin language was brought into the territory we now call France and in the nothern part, after successive alterations that affected the pronunciation, inflections and syntax, and after borrowing from the speech of the Germanic Franks, has become the French language. We sometimes speak of AngloSaxon as old English; with the same right...