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...Dutton, G. M. Leup, F. E. Gibbs, H. W. Foote, A. W. Blakemore, F. N. Read, C. H. Williams, C. H. Hardwick, A. B. Ruhl, N. M. Wing, O. W. Richardson, J. F. Downey, J. Ware, H. A. Wadleigh, C. D. Draper, L. C. Ledyard, Jr., C. R. Yoke, L. B. Shay, W. F. Porter, R. Haughton, E. N. Fenno, H. W. Williams, R. H. Carleton, G. A. Fried , E. S. Johnson, F. W. Bancroft, W. B. Truesdell, J. E. Hubbard, R. M. Mahoney, C. S. Thayer, G. P. Drury, P. A. Hutchison, R. McN. Barker, R. W. Osborne...
...life of John Jay was perhaps entitled to be written because he was a prominent New York gentleman, and a leader among those patriots who combined to throw off the English yoke. It could not have been omitted from a collection which included the lives of the presidents of the Continental Congress. It would of necessity have been included in a series which sought to lay before the people of New York a complete history of the governors of that state. The future Campbell of this country will be compelled to include it in the lives of the Chief Justices...
...preach, but to help-to try to remove the misconception in men's minds in regard to Christianity. In most American colleges, men don't know much about Christianity. In Scotland they are brought up on religion and see more of the questions which puzzle American students. Christ's yoke is no bondage as many men think. What is a yoke for? A yoke is a wooden collar intended to lighten the ox's burden. So Christ's yoke is put upon us to help us, not to retard us, If we take things as Christ took them, the yoke...
...became the centre. There came a third period when the North was again the seat of artisti life, which gradually declined in vigor up to the capture of Babylon by the Assyrians. There was again a short revival during the hundred years when Babylon freed herself from the Assyrian yoke. The temples give most information and are of three great classes. The first were built on high mounds or mountains and sometimes attained the height of the Egyptian pyramids. The second were tremendous structures of seven stories, erected for worship of the heavenly bodies. It is supposed that one story...
...rowing machine in use at Cornell, says the Sun, is on the hydraulic principle, but has but one cylinder for all four men instead of one cylinder for each of four men, as is usual on hydraulic rowing machines. The two bow men pull on one yoke, and the two stern men on another. These yokes are pivoted on a cross head to the piston. By this arrangement the two bow men and the two stern men must pull exactly alike. It can be seen whether they take the stroke at the same time and pull alike...