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...laid down. Its greater dimension extends from east to west. This pipe was sealed and the air exhausted. Mirrors were placed in the corners so that a beam of light would be reflected completely around it. In one corner an arc light was placed, the beams of which, split by mirrors, were reflected around the rectangle in opposite directions...
...great many potatoes have been grown since Martin Luther, hammer in hand, tacked his famed 95 theses on the church door at Wittenburg, in 1517. In 400 years the Christian Church has been split a hundred different ways by apostasy. Sects have sprung up like mushrooms in the night; few have died...
...upward of a quarter of a century educators have realized that college life can be effectively organized and college traditions adequately inculcated only when the student body is split up into subordinate units. That was the basic idea of the "Quads" which Woodrow Wilson planned for Princeton. President Lowell was himself once a convert to some such idea. But throughout the land educators have continued to lavish money upon laboratory training and research, upon technical and business schools and to shed copiously sentimental tears over each new evidence of the decline in the true spirit of college life. New York...
This attitude split the abolitionists into two groups-a Garrison or "moral" wing and a political wing which supported the Constitution. But, when the Civil War came, Garrison supported the Government. He saw at 60 the achievement of the cause which he had championed since he was 24. In 1867, he gave up publishing the Liberator but lived on in an honored old age till 1879. Such was the father of Mrs. Villard...
...Theodate Pope Riddle: Some 2,000 acres of meadow and rough woodland just west of Hartford, Conn., cut by boiling trout streams, bordered by the Farmington River. Built thereon, a rough-hewn stone village, copied after old Colonial villages, with heavy-timbered gables, hand-joined by wooden pegs; with split-oak roof-trees, slate-slabbed roofs and other backwoods atmosphere. In this village, a population of hardy schoolboys, citizen-students of Avon College (a school and junior college, preparatory to universities...