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... school subject , and it is got up largely by an effort of memory from a bare abstract or analysis . Part iii . includes English composition as a compulsory subject , and two of the following alter- natives : ( 1 ) English history ; ( 2 ) ...
... school subject , and it is got up largely by an effort of memory from a bare abstract or analysis . Part iii . includes English composition as a compulsory subject , and two of the following alter- natives : ( 1 ) English history ; ( 2 ) ...
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... School of Tropical Medicine now investigating sleeping sick- ness in the Congo . Complete observations have been made on the spread and distribution of sleeping sickness along the Congo River for a distance of nearly 1000 miles between ...
... School of Tropical Medicine now investigating sleeping sick- ness in the Congo . Complete observations have been made on the spread and distribution of sleeping sickness along the Congo River for a distance of nearly 1000 miles between ...
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... School , Tun- bridge Wells ; St. Mark's College , Chelsea ; High School for Girls , Lincoln ; Technical School , Louth ; County School , Wrexham ; Grammar School , Tamworth ; The Oratory School , Edgbaston ; Convent of the Sacred Heart ...
... School , Tun- bridge Wells ; St. Mark's College , Chelsea ; High School for Girls , Lincoln ; Technical School , Louth ; County School , Wrexham ; Grammar School , Tamworth ; The Oratory School , Edgbaston ; Convent of the Sacred Heart ...
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... school of medicine in that city in a thoroughly efficient and modern manner . They provide accommodation chiefly for the sub- jects of anatomy , surgery , and materia medica , the school of dental surgery and the school offices , and ...
... school of medicine in that city in a thoroughly efficient and modern manner . They provide accommodation chiefly for the sub- jects of anatomy , surgery , and materia medica , the school of dental surgery and the school offices , and ...
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... School Board , on " The Point of View of the Local Authorities . " The debate was opened by Mr. SJ Hughes , county alderman of Glamorganshire . Both Lord Stanley and Alderman Hughes emphasised the paramount importance of training for ...
... School Board , on " The Point of View of the Local Authorities . " The debate was opened by Mr. SJ Hughes , county alderman of Glamorganshire . Both Lord Stanley and Alderman Hughes emphasised the paramount importance of training for ...
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Page xlviii - Translated by J. Arthur Thomson, Professor of Natural History in the University of Aberdeen, and Margaret R. Thomson. Edited with an Introduction by Rev. WD Morrison, LL.D. Crown 8vo.
Page 226 - In primis hoc volunt persuadere, non interire animas, sed ab aliis post mortem transire ad alios, atque hoc maxime ad virtutem excitari putant, metu mortis neglecto. Multa praeterea de sideribus atque eorum motu, de mundi ac terrarum magnitudine, de rerum natura, de deorum immortalium vi ac potestate, disputant et juventuti tradunt.
Page 223 - Moored in the rifted rock, Proof to the tempest's shock, Firmer he roots him the ruder it blow; Menteith and Breadalbane, then, Echo his praise agen, Roderigh Vich Alpine dhu, ho! ieroe!
Page 179 - Women announces the offer of a third prize of 2ooJ. for the best thesis written by a woman, on a scientific subject, embodying new observations and new conclusions based on an independent laboratory research in biological, chemical, or physical science.
Page 108 - Society has been not infrequently greatly hampered in giving its advice, by the knowledge that the funds absolutely needed for the carrying out of the matters in question in accordance with our present scientific knowledge would not be forthcoming. Though I am now speaking on my own responsibility, I am sure that the Society is with me if I say that the expenditure by the Government on scientific research and scientific institutions, on which its commercial and industrial prosperity so largely depend,...
Page ii - ... chambers, forming tunnels, making roads, guarding their home, gathering food, feeding the young, tending their domestic animals, — each one fulfilling its duties industriously, and without confusion, — it is difficult altogether to deny to them the gift of reason ; and the preceding observations tend to confirm the opinion that their mental powers differ from those of men, not so much in kind as in degree.
Page 168 - CONTENTS.— The Sources of Supply.— Economic Aspect of Liquid Fuel.— Chemical Composition of Fuel Oils —Conditions of Combustion in Oil Fuel Furnaces.— Early Methods and Experiments. — Modern Burners and Methods.— Oil Fuel for Marine...
Page xvi - An abundance of information conveyed in a popular and attractive form. . . . Will be of great use to all who are in any way interested in coal mining."— Scottish Critic.
Page 179 - ... chemical or physical science. The theses offered in competition are to be presented to the Executive Committee of the Association and must be in the hands of the Chairman of the Committee on the Prize, MRS.
Page 108 - ... and scientific institutions which are always at once forthcoming in the United States. In my opinion, the scientific deadness of the nation is mainly due to the too exclusively mediaeval and classical methods of our higher public schools, and can only be slowly removed by making in future the teaching of science, not from text-books for passing an examination, but, as far as may be possible, from the study of the phenomena of nature by direct observation and experiment, an integral and essential...