Word: rapids
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Scott published his first novel "Waverly," anonymously. It met with tremendous success and was followed by the series of "Waverly Novels," following one another in rapid succession. His prose works show much the same characteristics as his poetry though in varying proportions. Here there is much room for his humor. Though critics have much to say against him his position in literature is unassailable and is as secure as that of Shakespeare or Homer...
...necessity for improvement is urgent. - (a) City poor should be supplied with - (1) Parks and open spaces: Octavia HIll. Homes of the London Poor, chap. VII; American Statistical Association's Publications I. 49-61 (1888). (2) Cheap and rapid transit to suburbs; Scribner's XI, 718. - (3) Improved dwellings and lodging houses; A. T. White, Workingmen's Dwellings; Fort. Rev. XLIX. 285. - (4) Reading-rooms and public baths; Scribners XI. 710. - (5) Sanitary inspection and regulation; J. B. Russel, Life in One Room. (b) Good tenements would pay a reasonable money profit: Boston Herald, Jan. 10, 1893; Octavia Hill, Homes...
...least, as any other lot of nine men picked from one college. We shall probably have as coach Colonel Winslow, to whose effort a great part of the success of last year's nine is due. We start the season then very auspiciously and improvement ought to be rapid. The games on the spring trip are with strong nines, which will give the team excellent practice, one may expect then that the faults now so apparent will be far less prominent on the return of the nine to Cambridge. In fact each game for a month or more ought...
...present, when rapid changes are taking place in our conception of the truth, and God is constantly impressing us with new ideas of it, we should feel that the time of our visitation is come. It is a dreadful thing to see the failure of a young life. We can forgive the child who does not grasp his opportunities; but we can not pardon the youth, who, surrounded by loving teachers and with all possible advantages, yet fails at his first actual trial. He may have had his temptations, but they should have been incentives to virtue. His failure...
Mars has two satellites, the inner of which is remarkable in that it rises in the west, its motion being very rapid. Jupiter has five satellites of which one was discovered last summer by Prof. Barnard of the Lick Observatory. The velocity of light was first determined by observation of the eclipses of the satellites of Jupiter, Uranus has four satellites and Neptune has one which is remarkable as having a retrograde motion...