Science, Volume 8John Michels (Journalist) Moses King, 1886 Since Jan. 1901 the official proceedings and most of the papers of the American Association for the Advancement of Science have been included in Science. |
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... attention , the danger of an incorrect conception of the purposes which should influence young men in pursuing university courses beyond a college curriculum . Those who have watched the ten- dencies of graduated students must have ...
... attention , the danger of an incorrect conception of the purposes which should influence young men in pursuing university courses beyond a college curriculum . Those who have watched the ten- dencies of graduated students must have ...
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... attention to some of the functions which are embodied in the conception of a uni- versity , the advancement of learning , the con- servation of knowledge , the development of talent , the promotion of spirituality , the cultivation of ...
... attention to some of the functions which are embodied in the conception of a uni- versity , the advancement of learning , the con- servation of knowledge , the development of talent , the promotion of spirituality , the cultivation of ...
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... attention were , Canada generally ; in South Africa , the Cape of Good Hope and Natal ; western and South Australia , Victoria , New South Wales , Queensland , New Zealand , and Tas- mania ; the last of which , unfortunately , was not ...
... attention were , Canada generally ; in South Africa , the Cape of Good Hope and Natal ; western and South Australia , Victoria , New South Wales , Queensland , New Zealand , and Tas- mania ; the last of which , unfortunately , was not ...
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... attention of the physician . The use of this cosmetic was at once interdicted , and in a few days the colic and the crying ceased . Instances of extreme old age are reported from Russia . The Novosti , a Russian journal , announces the ...
... attention of the physician . The use of this cosmetic was at once interdicted , and in a few days the colic and the crying ceased . Instances of extreme old age are reported from Russia . The Novosti , a Russian journal , announces the ...
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... attention to literary form would have improved it . The unpardonable lack of any index to such a book as this should be remedied without fail , if a second edition is ever called for . • Dr. McCosh's new book1 would undoubtedly in- eur ...
... attention to literary form would have improved it . The unpardonable lack of any index to such a book as this should be remedied without fail , if a second edition is ever called for . • Dr. McCosh's new book1 would undoubtedly in- eur ...
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Page 199 - The Court agree to give Four Hundred Pounds towards a School or College, whereof Two Hundred Pounds shall be paid the next year, and Two Hundred Pounds when the work is finished, and the next Court to appoint where and what building.
Page 167 - ... and the stars of the heaven fell unto the earth, as a fig tree casteth her unripe figs, when she is shaken of a great wind.
Page 447 - Each voter has as many votes as there are members to be elected, and may give them all to one candidate.
Page 167 - And his tail drew the third part of the stars of heaven, and did cast them to the earth : and the dragon stood before the woman which was ready to be delivered, for to devour her child as soon as it was born.
Page 167 - And there was seen another sign in heaven ; and behold, a great red dragon, having seven heads and ten horns, and upon his heads seven diadems.
Page 406 - Let it be our hope to make a gentleman of every youth who is put under our charge, not a conventional gentleman but a man of culture, a man of intellectual resource, a man of public spirit, a man of refinement, with that good taste which is the conscience of the mind and that conscience which is the good taste of the soul.
Page 172 - For a long time it was accepted without hesitation that these bodies required great heat for their first consolidation. Their resemblance to the earth's volcanic rocks was insisted on by mineralogists. Professor J. Lawrence Smith in 1855 asserted without reserve that " they have all been subject to a more or less prolonged igneous action corresponding to that of terrestrial volcanoes.
Page 460 - ... to direct the taste and confirm the habit of reading what is good rather than what is bad.
Page 192 - ... varying in size from that of a walnut to that of a small child's head — the taste more or less aromatic, sweet, or subacid. It is produced on spurs, which spring from branchlets of two or more years growth, and continue to bear for a series of years.
Page 179 - In the light of the facts which have now been set forth, it becomes evident that, to insure the creation of a speech which shall be the parent of a new linguistic stock, all that is needed is that two or more young children should be placed by themselves in a condition where they will be entirely, or in a large degree, free from the presence and influence of their elders. They must, of course, continue in this condition long enough to grow up, to form a household, and to have descendants to whom...