Word: wilderness
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Best general references: Popular Scientific Monthly, xxx, 296, 520 (Jan., Feb., 1887); No. Am. Rev., vol. 137, 218 (Sept., 1883); A. D. White in Forum, x, 357 (Nov., 1890); C. W. Eliot in Forum, xii, 153 (Oct., 1891); A. P. Wilder, Municipal Reform...
...property qualification for the municipal franchise will confer it upon those most likely to use it for the public welfare: Lalor, III, 811. - (a) It will make a more intelligent class of voters. - (b) It will exclude those indifferent to the public welfare. A. P. Wilder, 52. - (1) Dependent classes, susceptible to bribery. - (2) Pauper immigrants...
Best general references: Bryce, American Commonwealth, I, chs. 51, 52; H. C. Adams, Public Debts, 343-375; A. P. Wilder, The Municipal Problem; Johns Hopkins Studies, extra vol. II, 264-295; Joseph Chamberlain in Forum, XIV, 267; Report of National Conference for Good City Government, 1894; Bibliographies of Municipal Government in preceding report, and in Providence Public Library Bulletin...
...reported that Dr. Wilder D. Bancroft is to be Assistant Professor of Chemistry at Cornell next year. Dr. Wilder is a Harvard man, having received his degree of A.B. in 1888. After a year of graduate study he went to Europe. His first year of study in Europe was spent at Strasburg, and after two years at Leipsic he received the degree of Ph.D. from the latter university. Since Dr. Bancroft's return to America he has been an assistant and an instructor here...
...little before 2 o'clock Saturday afternoon, fire broke out in 28 weld, which is occupied by G. D. P. Wilder '95 and A. H. Gould '96. An alarm was sent in, but as Box 152 was rung instead of Box 59, the fire department was considerably delayed in reaching the spot. Although the flames did not spread beyond the study, the explosion of a small amount of powder in a desk, near which the fire is supposed to have originated, communicated the fire to several parts of the room. The fire was put out almost immediately by a stream...