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Wool Carding, Wooster University, Worth & Wyoming

Wool Carding

an early process in woolen manufacture for disentangling or tearing apart the tussocks of wool, and laying the fibers parallel, preparatory to spinning. It is only the short staple wools that are submitted to this operation, the long staple wools being combed.

Wooster University

a coeducational institution in Wooster, O.; found ed in 1866 under the auspices of the Presbyterian Church; reported at the close of 1919: Professors and instruc- WORCESTER tors, 41; students, 671; president, Chas.

F. Wishart, D. D.

Worth

a village in Alsace, at the confluence of the Sauerbach and Sulzbach rivers. It is celebrated as the place where the French on Aug. 6, 1870, met their first great defeat at the hands of the Germans in the Franco-Prussian War.

Wyoming

UNIVERSITY OF, a coeducational, non-sectarian institution in Laramie, Wyo., founded in 1886; reported at the close of 1919: Professors and instructors, 56; students, 913; president, A. Nelson, Ph. D.