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Hope College

a coeducational institution in Holland, Mich.; founded in 1866 under the auspices of the Reformed Church in America; reported at the close of 1919: Professors and instructors, 18; students, 335, president, E. D. Dimnent.

Hop Flea

or TOOTH-LEGGED BEETLE, a very small coleopterous insect, not quite one-tenth of an inch long, which often does much mischief in hop plantations in spring, devouring the tender tops of the young shoots. It is of the same genus as the turnip fly, so destructive to turnips.

Hopkinson

JOSEPH, an American jurist, son of Francis; born in Philadelphia, Nov. 12, 1770; was one of the ablest lawyers of his day. He wrote the famous patriotic song, "Hail Columbia" (1798), for the benefit of an actor, calling it at first the "President's March." He died in Philadelphia, Jan. 15, 1842.

Hoppin

AUGUSTUS, an American illustrator; born in Providence, R. I., in 1828. He was graduated , Brown University, 1848, and later went abroad to study art. He was successful in drawing on wood and in book illustrations.

He also published several novels and sketches. He died in 1896. ns.

Horn

CAPE is used with regard to the apparent age of strata. Strata which appear, broadly demned to death, but his father and the speaking, contemporaneous or homotaxial are said to be on the same horizon.

Horatius Flaccus

QUINTUS, commonly known as HORACE (q. v.).

HORDEIN (-hōr'din), a term that has been applied to a substance that can be extracted from barley, which is

Horizon

ARTIFICIAL, a shallow basin of mercury, covered, when necessary, to protect it from the wind, with a roof made of glass plates whose surfaces are parallel. It is used in connecland, and it derives its name from the contradistinction to the sea (or natural) horizon which is used by navigators.

Horeb

a mountain belonging to the same ridge as Mount Sinai, where is still pointed out the rock from which water issued at the blow of Moses.

Horn

CAPE, commonly spoken of as the extreme S. point of America, is a steep, black, bare mountain headland of one of the small islands of the Fuegian Archipelago. It was named Hoorn, an- HORN glicized Horn, "the Horn," when rounded in 1616 by the Dutch navigators, Lemaire and Schouten. It was sighted by Drake in 1578.

Hornbook

the primer or apparatus for learning the elements of reading, used in England before the days of printing. It consisted of a single leaf, containing on one side the alphabet, large and small, in black letter or in Roman.

Then followed a form of exorcism and the Lord's Prayer, and, as a finale, the Roman numerals .

Horncastle

an English markettown of Lincolnshire. It has a great August horse-fair, to which Borrow devotes 11 chapters of the "Romany Rye."

Horned Screamer

a South American grallatorial bird. larger than a goose, with a long, slender, mobile horn projecting from the forehead, whence the epithet. Its color is blackish, with a red spot on the shoulder.