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...many instances wasted their efforts. During the Middle Ages with the decadence of civilization, engineering declined, only to take on new life in the sixteenth century. The need of the civil engineer became greater with construction of roads, bridges, docks, and harbors. The many inventions of the early nineteenth century gave added impulse to the profession, and engineers began to be differentiated. There arose the railroad engineer; the mechanical engineer, who was concerned with the development of power; the sanitary engineer, and the mining engineer. Meanwhile the scope of the civil engineer was ever broadening and his field being again...
...History of Nineteenth Century Literature," G. Sainstbury...
Announcement has been made by the Department of History and Government that the half-course known as History 12b will be given during the second half of the present year by Mr. Edward Porritt of Hartford, Conn. The course will deal with the history of England in the nineteenth century...
...Right to Strike," by W. G. Merritt '02; "Times of Sunrise and Sunset in the United States," by R. W. Willson '73; "The Higher Life in Art," by John La Farge '01; "Mars as the Abode of Life," by Percival Lowell '76; "The Art of Painting in the Nineteenth Century," by E. R. O. von Mach '95; "Pedro Sanchez," by Jose M. Pereda, edited by R. W. E. Bassett '89; "Modernism," by Paul Sabatier, translated by C. A. Miles '53; "Human Foods and Their Nutritive Value," by W. H. Snyder...
...generations ago the successful debater was the intellectual idol of our colleges, and the art of ex tempore speaking was cultivated by all classes of students. Towards the end of the nineteenth century all this changed very suddenly. The man who a few years before would have been the intellectual idol of his fellows came to be regarded with indifference, if not with suspicion. Now it is no longer success in oratory, but success in sport, that is over-idolized. There is no doubt that we should be a great deal better off if public attention were more largely fixed...