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...Botanical Museum, in the University Museum building, a number of new Blaschka plat-models have been placed on exhibition for the first time. They are mounted on the new style of plaques and have been placed chiefly in the vestibule. A large number of economic specimens, recently received, are also on exhibition and are expected to give far better illustrations of certain orders than has hitherto been possible. One of the most interesting is a large specimen of brick tea, now installed in the north room. Tea of this kind, in solid tablets of great size a method of packing...
...religion, he is welcome at Northfield. For this purpose there are meetings and conferences during the forenoons for those who wish to specialize in some form of religious activity, as, for instance, mission work, a Bible Study course, and so on. At eleven o'clock there is a general "plat from meeting, " at which an address is made by some speaker of national reputation and real power. In the evening at sunset there takes place the "Round Top" meeting, at which the college student's greatest problem--his life work--is discussed. After this comes the delegation meeting, where students...
...Pres. Cleveland, July, '94. II. Mr. Bryan is not a fit man to be President. (A) His political tendencies are against the best American ideas. (1) He and his party show a lack of reverence for judicious authority, (a) The Chicago platform earnestly menaces the Supreme Court (Dem. Plat., '96.) (b) Mr. Bryan sneers at the Federal Judiciary and Judge. ("Cross and Crown" speech and elsewhere). (2) If he were elected, we should be in danger from the wild vagaries of the Populist Platform (Pop. Plat., '96). (a) He would owe his election to Populist votes. (b) He would...
...advisable to return the Democratic party to power in 1896-(a) for the Republican party has a better financial policy than the Democratic party.- (1) This is shown by the vote on the repeal of the Sherman law (Forum, May, 1894).- (2) It is shown by recent party plat forms in representative Republican States-(x) Massachusetts, (y) New York.- (3) It is shown by recent votes in Congress.- (b) The tariff policy of the Republican party is at present better for the country than that of the Democratic party.- (1) The Republican party has done all it could to pass...
...words commonly meaning "go up" and "go down" occur, and has skillfully shown that in Aristophanes' time they were used simply as stage terms in the sense of "go on" or "go off," this signification arising from the early Greek religious processions where the first actor mounted a wheeled plat form to deliver his verses in honor of the god. Next he discusses the "positive testimony against the existence of a stage furnished by Aristophanes," under five argumentative heads. "First, the argument from mingling of chorus and actors; second, from the close of the plays; third, from impossible situations; fourth...