Slosson
EDWIN EMERY, an American editor and writer, born at Albany, Kan., in 1865. He graduated from the University of Kansas in 1890, and took post-graduate studies at the University of Chicago. He was for several years professor of chemistry at the University of Wyoming. In 1903 he became literary manager of the "Independent," and from 1912 was an associate professor at the Columbia School of Journalism. He wrote "Great American Universities" (1910); "Major Prophets of To-Day" (1914); "Creative Chemistry" (1919); "The American Spirit in Education” (1919).
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Sloyd
sloid, a system of training in the use of tools. It is known also as the Swedish system of manual training from its use in Sweden and Finland. The original sloyd consisted in producing a variety of household utensils as dippers, wooden spoons, ladles, knives, etc., by whittling. The system was expanded especially by Otto Solomon (Naas Normal, 1876), to include many other articles and other material, as iron and brass. Drafting was added. In a way the fundamental difference between sloyd and manual training as commonly understood is that which differentiates whittling from carpentry. Doubtless sloyd calls for a more artistic eye and a defter hand.
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Slug
. See Snail
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Smalkald
a small city of Central Germany noted in the Reformation. Present population, about 7,000. It is today surrounded by walls and a moat. Narrow, crooked streets are lined with Gothic houses adorned with lofty gables and rich carving. A monument in the marketplace commemorates Karl Wilhelm, a native of the place, the author of the German war song, Die Wacht am Rhine (The Watch on the Rhine). In 1631 the Protestant princes met in an old-fashioned inn called The Crown to form the League of Smalkald against the Catholic emperor, Charles V. The inn still receives guests. Another inn indicated by an inscription and the sign of a Golden Swan is the place where Luther, Melanchthon, and other reformers met in 1637 to draw up the Smalkald Articles, a reaffirmation of the Augsburg Confession. See Luther ; Augsburg
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Small
ALBION WOODBURY, an American educator, born at Buchfield, Me., in 1854. He was educated at Colby College, the Newton Theological Institution, the Universities of Berlin and Leipzig, and Johns Hopkins University. From 1881 to 1888 he was professor of history and political economy at Colby College, and from 1889 to 1892 president of this institution. From 1892 to 1905 he was professor and head of the department of sociology at the University of Chicago, Chic and since 1905 Dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Literature. Beginof the of ning with 1895 he was editor "American Journal of Sociology." He wrote "General Sociology" (1905); "Adam Smith and Modern Sociology" (1907); "The Cameralists" (1909); "The Meaning of Social Science" (1910); "Between Eras" (1913).
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Small Arms
. See Gun ; Rifle ; Pistol; Colt ; Revolver
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Smalley
GEORGE WASHBURN, an American journalist; born in Franklin, Mass., June 2, 1833. During the American Civil War, the war between Prussia and Austria, and the Franco-German War, he distinguished himself as war correspondent of the New York "Tribune," and as representative of the same in London (1867-1895) he gained an eminent rank in journalism. His "London Letters and Some Others" and "Studies of Men" were widely popular. He published two series of "Anglo-American He became Memories" (1911-1912). American correspondent of the London "Times" in 1895. He died in 1916.
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Smart
CHRISTOPHER, an English poet, and one of the interesting figures of literary history; born in Shipbourne, Kent, England, April 11, 1722. His fame rests on a "Song to David" (1763). Noted also is a version of Horace which had a wide sale. Other works are: "Poems" (1752); "Power of the Supreme Being" (1753); "The Hilliah: An Epic Poem" (1753); "Poems on Several Occasions" (1763); "Translation of the Psalms of David" (1765); and many miscellaneous essays, poems and translations. He died in London, May 21, 1771.
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Smelting Furnace
a furnace for disengaging the metal from its gangue or the non-metalliferous portions of the ore. The furnaces differ much, according to the metals to be treated. See BLAST FUR- NACE: REVERBERATORY FURNACE.
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Smew
in ornithology, the Mergus albellus, called also the smee or nun, frequenting the seashore and also inland ponds and lakes of Europe and America. The adult male is about 17 inches long; head, chin and neck white, a black patch round the eyes, and over the back of the head is a green streak forming, with some white elongated feathers, a kind of crest; back black, tail gray, wings black and white, under surface white, penciled with gray on the flanks. The female is smaller, with plumage chiefly reddish-brown and gray. SMILACEÆ, sarsaparilla; an order of dictyogens. Herbs or under-shrubs often climbing, and with fleshy tuberous rhizomes; leaves reticulated; fruit, a roundish berry. Known genera, two; species 120, widely distributed, but most numerous in Asia and America.
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Smilax
sarsaparilla, the typical genus of the order Smilaceæ. The roots of several species or varieties constitute the sarsaparilla of the Materia Medica. 1 Sarsaparilla is regarded as an alterative in venereal and skin diseases, rheumatism, etc. The kind most valued is that known as Jamaica sarsaparilla, obtained from the species S. officinalis. It is not the produce of Jamaica, but of Central America and the N. parts of South America. Other kinds distinguished in commerce are Lima, Lean Vera Cruz, Gouty Vera Cruz, Lisbon, or Brazilian, and Honduras. Among the European species is S. aspera, the roots of which form Italian sarsaparilla.
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Smiles
SAMUEL, a British miscellaneous writer; born in Haddington, Scotland, Dec. 23, 1812; was educated at Edinburgh University, and as a surgeon in Edinburgh; editor of Leeds "Times"; secretary of the Leeds and Thirsk railway; afterward of Southeastern railway; then retired. Many of his writings had a very wide circulation. Among them are: "Self-Help" (1859); "Life of George Stephenson" Stephenson" (6th (6th ed. 1864); "Lives of Engineers" (1862; new ed. 1874, 5 vols.); "The Huguenots in England and Ireland" (4th ed. 1876); "Thrift" (1875); "Men of Invention and Industry" (1884); "Life and Labor," "Conduct," etc. The King of Servia conferred on him (1897), for his literary work, the Knight Commander's Cross of the Royal Order of St. Sava. He died April 16, 1904.
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