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...realization of national ideals. Even as far back as the seventh century the Japanese saw the benefits that could be gained by adopting Chinese civilization. At that time the Chinese religion, governmental systems and literature were introduced in a body, and the present introduction of western civilization in the nineteenth century is well known...
Education 6b.--Educational Theory in the Early Nineteenth Century. -- Pestalozzi, Herbart and their Followers. The Influence of Pestalozzi, Froebel, and Herbart on the Development of Modern Schools. Tuesday, Thursday, at 2.30, and a third hour at the pleasure of the instructor. Mr. Holmes...
...Hart '80 was the next speaker. Under the head of "Bismarck as a Commonwealth Builder," he spoke of the latter's main purpose, that of converting the many German states into one central unified whole. Three reasons may be given for the ultimate success of this greatest of nineteenth century diplomats in this stupendous undertaking: first, the class to which Bismarck belonged was such that if once convinced of the usefulness of a project, it would pursue it to the end; second, Bismarck himself had a glorious vision of what could be accomplished; third, Bismarck's remarkable force of character...
...said to have been created within that period. The work to be done by the dentist, and his materials and apparatus for doing that work are, for the most part, applications of three sciences: chemistry, physics, and biology, which have each made rapid progress since the middle of the nineteenth century. To the progress of applied chemistry, dentistry owes a large number of valuable new materials. Teeth used to be filled with gold, or other pure metal, chiefly in the form of foil, but now gold and other pure metals are used in many different forms. Alloys, or mixtures...
...Cook in 1775. Their origin is doubtful, but they probably came to Hawaii about 1000 years ago from the other islands of the Southern Pacific. In religion they were heathens, worshiping many minor gods and one supreme deity, until the coming of missionaries in the early part of the nineteenth century. Up to 1750, each island was a separate monarchy, but in that year one king succeeded in conquering the others, and Hawaii remained one united kingdom until 1895, when a republic was established. The Spanish-American war undoubtedly hastened its annexation to the United States, as a coaling station...