Word: centralization
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...university to be 2673, divided as follows: The college, 706; medical school, 682; law school, 312; graduate school, 172. There is an increasing number of students from Latin-American countries due, in part, to circulars of information regarding the university recently translated into Spanish and circulated in Central and South America and the West Indies...
...cultivated sugar-cane is grown wholly from cuttings or "sets," as they are called, and this practice has been carried on from time immemorial, until now the plants have ceased to produce fertile seeds. It happens occasionally in South and Central America, that a little seed is produced by artificial crossing, but, as a rule, the plants raised from these seeds are not much, if any, better than those from the cuttings. In Java, successful attempts have been made to carry the pollen from the flowers to such stigmas as are receptive, and the results have been excellent. These experiments...
...museum. There will be a series of photographs of the rooms and specimen cases, and a series of bromide enlargements showing the explorations in the field. The latter group, which will show the explorations as they are conducted, will cover the excavations of the ruins of Yucatan and Central America and the mounds and burial places in portions of the United States and Central America...
...make soundings; and, of these, he made seventy-two before reaching Tahiti. By means of the soundings, the depths of the unexplored parts of the Pacific were ascertained and the basins located. Mr. Agassiz suggested in his letter that the deepest and largest of these basins, found in the Central Pacific, be named the "Moser Basin...
...Harvard men was one by Professor W. W. Goodwin on "The Hero Physician," which was illustrated with lantern slides. Professor F. W. Putnam spoke on "Ancient Pueblos of the Chaco Canon," Mr. G. H. Chase on "Terra Cottas from the Argive Heraeum," and Mr. C. P. Bowditch on "Central American Archaeology." The last named presided over the Thursday session. A significant fact was shown by the statement of Dr. Talcott Williams of Philadelphia that $11,000,000 had been spent during the last ten years for museums and researches in the realm of archaeology...