Word: return
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Dates: during 1900-1900
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...launch was yesterday afternoon taken a short distance down the harbor by Mr. Lawley on a trial trip. She was not pushed for speed, but ran smoothly and well until the tail-head guide of the low pressure cylinder broke and obliged her to return to the yard. This accident was a trifling one and the repairs to be made will be simple, so that she will be ready today for another trial. She will probably be brought up to the boat-house on Monday...
...becomes suspicious at the delay and demands that the sacrifice proceed. Iphigenie, finding procrastination no longer possible, reveals to the king the identity of herself and her brother and beseeches him for mercy. After an inward struggle, the king relents, pardons the brother and sister, and permits them to return to their native land...
...graduated in 1889 from Yale and then went abroad to study forestry in Germany and France. Upon his return he opened an office in New York as consulting forester. Among the estates which he surveyed and planned out are the Biltmore estate in North Carolina and Mr. Webb's preserves in the Adirondacks. He was shortly afterward appointed Chief of the Division of Forestry at Washington. Mr. Pinchot lectured at Yale last fall and much interest has since been aroused there...
...Hurlbut has reached Minneapolis in his tour westward, and will soon start on his return journey by way of Washington and Baltimore. In addition to his efforts as secretary of the Appointment Committee, to arrange means for obtaining situations for graduating Harvard students, Mr. Hurlbut has been visiting the principal preparatory schools, to see how the methods of instruction there can be made preparatory to the new requirements for admission to Harvard...
...which in some cases endangers the loss of the whole. The only remedy is a large increase in the endowment, or a temporary relief by gifts for immediate use. Delay may cause the poorest economy, by which an immediate saving may be followed later by a much more expensive return to present conditions...