Word: procession
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...number of scrub elevens are in process of form action...
...deficiencies in literary taste : A reaction against the false views which prevailed fifty years ago as to the proper use of literature. It was in those days considered an essential for a well-bred man to be conversant with all famous authors. Education, therefore, consisted largely in a cramming process by which the student should become versed in the lives and writings of those men who had won the admiration of the world ; the proper method of testifying progress was to echo the praises which general use endorsed as appropriate. This was usually done without any genuine appreciation...
...author whom one knows only by name, do not be satisfied with the account of a cyclopedia, nor with selected extracts, but get access to the author's complete works, read a bit here and a bit there, get some idea of what he has written. By this process the reader will be attracted by what best pleases him, and will at length learn to appreciate the qualities which attracted...
...five or six hundred women with the old-fashioned wheel. The speaker reviewed the introduction and increase of the woolen industry in this country, and said that the woolen industry of the country may be said to have begun with this century. Mr. Hazard described very minutely the process of woolen manufacturing, and illustrated his remarks by various objects used in woolen making. There are three kinds of woolen cloths, those made by the processes called card, worsted and felting. The labor in the woolen mills is about evenly divided between the sexes. The English are by far the best...
...this and other courses the speaker was confident that in a few years we would become large exporters of iron, supplanting England in this respect. The lecture closed with a description of the open-hearth process by which the so-called Martin steel is manufactured, and an account of the present condition of the iron industry in this country...