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Septuagesima – Seymour

Septuagesima

the third Sunday before Lent, so called because it is about 70 days before Easter.

Sereth

an important affluent of the Danube. It rises in the Carpathians in Bukowina, flows through Rumania, and joins the Danube 5 miles above Galatz after a course of 300 miles. Parts of the regions through which it flows saw much fighting between the Russian and Austro- German armies during the World War.

Serous Fluids

a name given to the lymph-like pellucid fluids secreted by certain membranes and contained in certain cavities of the body. An excess of this secretion constitutes a diseased and often a dropsical condition.

Serra Da Estrella

a lofty range DA ESTRELLA, a lofty range Portugal, highest summit 6,460 feet. The range contains some remarkable lakes, part of which are tepid.

Percoidæ; found on the shores of all tem-

Sesha

in Hindu mythology, the king 1,000 heads, on one of which the world of the serpent race, on which Vishnu re- clines on the primeval waters. It has of eternity.

Settlement

in ecclesiology, a sum of money or other property granted to a clergyman on his ordination, exclusive of his salary; or, a homestead of a pastor, as furnished sometimes by donation of land with or without buildings, sometimes

Seton

ERNEST THOMPSON. See by the pastor's applying funds granted THOMPSON-SETON.

Seton Hall College

a Roman Catholic institution for higher education, at South Orange, N. J. It was founded at Madison, N. J., in 1856, and was removed to South Orange in 1860. There were, in 1919, 21 instructors and 321 students. President, J. F. Mooney.

Settlement

ACT OF, in English story, an act passed history, the succession of the crown was settled on the death of Queen Anne on Sophia, granddaughter of James I., and wife of the Elector of Hanover, and the heirs of her body, being Protestants. act passed in 1702, by which

Seven Weeks' War

the great conflict in 1866 for German supremacy between Prussia and Italy on one side and Austria on the other, in which the allies were victorious.

Seward

MOUNT, a mountain in Franklin co., N. Y.; is a summit of the Adirondacks, 14 miles W. of Mount Marcy, and was named for William H.

Seward; height, 4,384 feet.

SEWING MACHINE over

Seymour

a town of Connecticut, in New Haven co. It is on the Naugatuck river, and on the New York, New Haven, and Hartford railroad. It is an important industrial city and has manufactures of paper, iron castings, wire, tools, sub- SEYMOUR marine cables, copper, fountain pens, etc.

Pop. (1910) 4,786; (1920) 6,781.