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The Comptroller of the City of New York deserves the thanks of all good citizens for his serious indictment of the abuses of public charity that have grown up in this city and State within the past ten years. Probably very few of the more intelligent men and women of the commu...
These two Malay jurists carefully examined the criminal records of Europe. Why? Because, whenever an extraordinary or especially heinous crime was committed in the Philippine Is...
14. Part 14Appreciation of the value of Mr. Spencer's work had been growing for many years, and its influence was gradually making itself felt in movements of various kinds in the active w...
7. Part 7Equally corroborative of our first position are the results of still another set of experiments. Here the dogs and cats were put through the proper movement from twenty-five to...
5. Part 5But instead of its being true that the scientific work of the country has outgrown the need of the association, is it not rather true that we are in far more urgent need of its...
18. Part 18=The Claims of the High School.=--In considering the right of the public high school to be a just charge upon the public treasury, Mr. Frank A. Hill, of the Massachusetts State...
10. Part 10The item which will engage our attention principally here relates to the primary function of the nerve cell--to store up vital forces in the form of highly unstable chemical com...
13. Part 13In all reforms we must "dig at the roots" if we would insure a steady and healthful growth. The kitchen-garden idea, originated by Miss Emily Huntington in 1887 for "the purpose...
15. Part 15In the last resort, it must be admitted, the fault rests with the people. It is with reluctance that the average elector acknowledges--if he can be brought to acknowledge at all...
17. Part 17=Climate and Acclimatization.=--In view of the rapid growth of West Indian and South American commerce and the considerable emigration to Cuba and neighboring islands, which our...
12. Part 12So thorough an experiment, carried through so long a time, and presenting an example to be avoided, was in fact imitated by Prussia under a law of 1865. In each division (_Kreis...
11. Part 11Regarding the number of hours of mental application per day which may be safely expected of a pupil in school, investigations have tended to show that there is a danger of requi...
2. Part 2III. EDUCATION.--Within the past four years several States--Wisconsin, Ohio, New Jersey, Nevada--have enacted statutes providing that pupils in the public schools should be part...
1. Part 1The Comptroller of the City of New York deserves the thanks of all good citizens for his serious indictment of the abuses of public charity that have grown up in this city and S...
4. Part 4In the winter of 1888-'89 Professor Crosby, using for his auditorium Huntington Hall, gave a course of ten lessons on the geology of Boston and vicinity. "The object of the less...
3. Part 3Ten years ago the Hon. Edwin Reed, of Boston, Massachusetts, published a pamphlet[5] in which he had the courage to say that, if a man were well fed, liquor could have no terror...
8. Part 8I fully agree with him, but would make the National Museum the center of activity, rather than the Smithsonian Institution. It would then be under the control of the Board of Re...
9. Part 9After all, I must insist that it is to history one must go to determine a question of this sort. Jews have shown such marked individuality throughout their career for the last t...
16. Part 16[Footnote 63: Ichthyologia Ohioensis: or Natural History of the Fishes inhabiting the River Ohio and its Tributary Streams. By C. S. Rafinesque. A Verbatim and Literatim Reprint...
19. Part 19Mr. Andrew Carnegie has offered to complete, with a contribution of £50,000, a fund which Mr. Joseph Chamberlain is trying to raise in order to make the scientific school the pr...