People and Problems: A Collection of Addresses and EditorialsH. Holt, 1908 - 344 pages |
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... ENGLAND AND THE WAR . 1900 WOMEN AND THE JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY . THE SAD PLIGHT OF THE STATE OF MARYLAND . THE MEDIAEVALISTS AND THE BALTIMORE SCHOOLS .. THE NEWS IN THE CAMPAIGN . WILLIAM L. WILSON .. 169 173 178 183 189 193 197 202 ...
... ENGLAND AND THE WAR . 1900 WOMEN AND THE JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY . THE SAD PLIGHT OF THE STATE OF MARYLAND . THE MEDIAEVALISTS AND THE BALTIMORE SCHOOLS .. THE NEWS IN THE CAMPAIGN . WILLIAM L. WILSON .. 169 173 178 183 189 193 197 202 ...
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... a revival of mathematics in England is usually dated . Nothing could show more thoroughly the insular and retrograde condition of English mathe- case that in the magnificent extension of of mathematics which 12 ADDRESSES AND EDITORIALS.
... a revival of mathematics in England is usually dated . Nothing could show more thoroughly the insular and retrograde condition of English mathe- case that in the magnificent extension of of mathematics which 12 ADDRESSES AND EDITORIALS.
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... England had n is almost literally correct to say that th mathematics for about a hundred year written without serious defect with Eng matics left entirely out of account . That the like statement cannot be ma to the past fifty years is ...
... England had n is almost literally correct to say that th mathematics for about a hundred year written without serious defect with Eng matics left entirely out of account . That the like statement cannot be ma to the past fifty years is ...
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... England and America has a different view of the matter been widely entertained even in our time , the woman movement " having attained an important character in Germany only within the past five or ten years . In the second place , I ...
... England and America has a different view of the matter been widely entertained even in our time , the woman movement " having attained an important character in Germany only within the past five or ten years . In the second place , I ...
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... England which has seemed to grow so rapidly in the last ten or twenty years , is one of the most deplorable features of our recent political history . It has been sedulously stimulated by selfish and flashy politicians , especially in ...
... England which has seemed to grow so rapidly in the last ten or twenty years , is one of the most deplorable features of our recent political history . It has been sedulously stimulated by selfish and flashy politicians , especially in ...
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Page 42 - These are among the last words of her Journal of 1870. Whether or not the number of George Sand's works — always fresh, always attractive, but poured out too lavishly and rapidly — is likely to prove a hindrance to her fame, I do not care to consider. Posterity, alarmed at the way in which its literary baggage grows upon it, always seeks to leave behind it as much as it can, as much as it dares — -everything but masterpieces. But the immense vibration of George Sand's voice upon the ear of...