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...every modern appliance for safety, including air-brakes and an air-whistle communicating with the engineer. In addition to a patent interlocking coupler, safety chains will be added between the cars, and with the platforms connecting the cars, the train will have the same solidity of motion as a wide vestibuled train of parlor or sleeping cars...
...persecution as furious as it was undeserved. Theodore Parker, the leader of the party, held views on the interpretation of the Scriptures which would today be considered the reverse of radical; and yet these same views prevented his election to the Phi Beta Kappa, in spite of his wide reputation as a scholar...
...last Vesper service of the academic year will be held in Appleton Chapel at five o'clock this afternoon. The music will consist of the following selections: "Fling Wide the Gates," from Stainer's "Crucifixion"; "And it was the Third Hour," by Elvey; and "While My Watch I Am Keeping," from Gounod's "Redemption...
Mohammed wisely called the Jewish nation the people of books. From the very first knowledge of the race to the present time the wide gamut of Lennan feeling has been struck by the poetry and philosophy of rabbinical literature. The Talmud was the literary production of Jewish religion preceeding the period taken up by the Old Testament. At that time Jewish religion embraced everything; there was not an actor a desire which was not controlled by religious feeling. Everything in the Jews' daily life had a been spiritual significance. Examples of their domestic life, their homely customs and habits, were...
...Methods of Organization and Management," dwelling especially upon the operations and the responsibilities of the promoter. In the first place, the promoter must be a man who understands thoroughly every phase of the business in which he intends to form a combination; he must of course have a wide reputation for honesty, and be an able solicitor. Ordinarily a large proportion of the capital of a concern is in the form of plants. Here the problem comes up as to how much stock shall be issued for this, and the solution is worked out by the promoter, who by getting...