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Page 13 - Preliminary Report on the Mineral Production of Canada during the Calendar Year 1914
Page v - Secondary schools in the States of Central America, South America, and the West Indies. Anna T. Smith. No. 27. Opportunities for foreign students at colleges and universities in the United States.
Page 58 - Want of thoroughness and foundation; want of system; slovenliness and showy superficiality; inattention to rudiments; undue time given to accomplishments, and these not taught intelligently or in any scientific manner; want of organization, - these may sufficiently indicate the character of the complaints we have received, in their most general aspect.
Page 260 - The president of the Board of Agriculture and Fisheries has appointed a committee to consider...
Page 24 - A mathematical demonstration is not a simple juxtaposition of syllogisms, it is syllogisms placed in a certain order, and the order in which these elements are placed is much more important than the elements themselves. If I have the feeling, the intuition, so to speak, of this order, so as to perceive at a glance the reasoning as a whole, I need no longer fear lest I forget one of the elements...
Page 128 - Field book of American trees and shrubs: a concise description of the character and color of species common throughout the United States, together with maps showing their general distribution.
Page 82 - Seventy-fourth annual report of the Government Cinchona Plantations and factory in Bengal for the year 1935—1936.
Page 121 - WOE to the land shadowing with wings, Which is beyond the rivers of Ethiopia : That sendeth ambassadors by the sea, Even in vessels of bulrushes upon the waters, saying. Go, ye swift messengers, To a nation scattered and peeled, To a people terrible from their beginning hitherto; A nation meted out and trodden down, Whose land the rivers have spoiled...
Page 156 - A fragment of a cell deprived of its nucleus may live for a considerable time, and manifest the power of co-ordinated movement without perceptible impairment. Such a mass of protoplasm is, however, devoid of the powers of assimilation, growth, and repair, and sooner or later dies. In other words, those functions that involve destructive metabolism may continue for a time in the absence of the nucleus; those that involve constructive metabolism cease with its removal.
Page 207 - The placing or shading of lamps so that light from them does not fall directly on the eyes of an operator when engaged on his work or when looking horizontally across the workroom.