Word: long
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...southern California and along the Rio Grande irrigation is carried on very scientifically and advantageously. The method used at present is to tap a stream up in the mountains; water is led off by long canals down into the valleys, and each farmer in turn taps the canal to irrigate his land. The laterals are at times but 100 feet apart, and the water flowing through them moistens all the intervening ground...
...construction of a very large canal, and it is expected that this part of the arid region will soon be a most fertile land. A large number of the the smaller rivers cross this territory. The frost is never severe; the mean temperature is 620, and the summers are long and hot. The soil of the arid region is rich, and the opportunities for irrigation are great. The population of the United States is rapidly increasing, and the rising generation will see it reach 200,000,000. The arid region alone, if properly cultivated, could supply them all with...
...giving a poetic hue to our modern life, to make poetry the focus of all human activity. A modern liter ature which deals exclusively in mediaeval ideas may be popular for a time as a curiosify, but it can not satisfy the taste of a modern nation for a long time...
...bath rooms, which are generally filled with overcoats and hats, it seems that more efficient watch might be kept by the authorities to prevent pilfering. Some system of checking, similar to that at the library, might be devised, which would be a very good safe-guard. However, as long as the present system holds, all the students can do is to exercise care, not leaving valuables in their coat pockets or in the lockers and to be sure to keep the latter securely locked...
...will be done by the management of each organization to make its work successful. Of this we feel assured. But there are requisites of success other than the conscientious work of captains and managers, necessary as these are. Men must be found who are willing to train earnestly and long, else we cannot even hope for victory. All this is of course very trite and uninteresting, but it is nevertheless the foundation truth of athletic success, and needs to be practiced as well as understood. We do not propose to launch forth into extended exhortations-a style too common...