Each of these 9 subjects appears in only one of the 6 encyclopedias on this shelf. None is long enough to carry a page by itself, so they are gathered here by letter. Anything that grows moves out to a page of its own.
an institution for higher education, founded at Worcester, Mass., in 1902. It was endowed by Jonas G. Clark with $1,300,000 and was granted existing Clark University. It is legally the collegiate department of the University, but under the terms of the will of the founder, it is a completely independent organization. In 1918 there were 184 students and 25 members of the faculty. President, Edmund C. Sandford.
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an institution at Worcester, Mass., founded in 1887 by Jones Gilman Clark, and devoted exclusively to post-graduate work. At the close of the school year 1919 the university reported: professors, 21; stu- ; volumes in the library, 85,000; dents, 106; dents, 106 president, G. Stanley Hall, LL. D.
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Alvan (1804-1887), a maker of astronomical instruments. With his son, Alvan G. Clark (1832-1897), he formed the firm of Clark and Son of Cambridge, Massachusetts, known the world over for telescopes of great delicacy and power. The more interesting of their telescopes may be mentioned. One, bearing an object glass with an aperture or diameter of eighteen and one-half inches, is owned by the astronomical society of Chicago. The Naval Observatory at Washington has a twenty-six inch Clark telescope. Cyrus McCormick, the maker of reapers, gave a large Clark to the University of Virginia. A thirty-inch instrument was made for the Imperial Observatory at St. Petersburg; a thirty-six inch for the Lick Observatory at Mount Hamilton, California, and lastly a forty-inch object glass was ordered by C. T. Yerkes for the University of Chicago Observatory at Lake Geneva, Wisconsin. The Yerkes lens is the most powerful in existence. It brings the moon within an apparent distance of a few miles from the observer. It requires the purest of glass and the work of years to bring one of these lenses to perfection. The finish is so delicate and so perfect that a single careless touch with the end of one's finger would ruin the surface and render the glass useful only for a smaller lens. See Telescope
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George Rogers (1752-1818), an American soldier and pioneer. He was a native of Virginia. In 1775 he settled in Kentucky. At the outbreak of the Revolution he was a leader in the midst of the Indian warfare waged in the Ohio Valley. He defended Harrodsburg against the combined attack of British and Indians. In 1778-9 he led a force of Kentucky riflemen across the Ohio to the capture of Kaskaskia on the Mississippi. From this post he marched eastward to surprise the British at Fort Vincennes on the Wabash. This cross country march of a small force, floundering through deep snow or wading waist deep in icy water to attack a superior foe intrenched in comfort, is one of the most notable, as well as successful, expeditions on record. At the conclusion of peace it gave the United States a title to the Mississippi Valley by virtue of conquest and occupancy. In his latter days, as is too often the case, Clark's services were forgotten. He became a drunkard, fell into want, and died near Louisville in utter neglect. Good portraits are given in Churchill's The Crossing, Thompson's Alice of Old Vincennes, and Roosevelt's Winning of the West.
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William (1770-1838), an American explorer. A brother of George Rogers Clark. He migrated from Virginia to the present site of Louisville, Kentucky. In 1808, he was appointed to the joint command of the Lewis and Clark expedition , sent by Jefferson to explore the upper waters of the Missouri, and the great Northwest. Clark's journal of the trip from St. Louis through the mountains to the mouth of the Columbia River in Oregon is full of thrilling anecdotes. It is better reading than any story of Indian adventure. He died at St. Louis. See Lewis
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James Freeman (1810-1888), an American Unitarian clergyman and miscellaneous author. He was born at Hanover, New Hampshire . He was educated at Harvard University , and his first pastorate was at Louisville, Kentucky. In 1841 he removed to Boston and founded the Church of the Disciples of which he was pastor until his death. Mr. Clarke was a friend of Channing, Holmes, and Emerson, and sympathised with the views of the Transcendentalists. He was a clear thinker--a leader in literary and educational movements. His best known writings are Ten Great Religions, Every-Day Religion, Orthodoxy, Its Truths and Errors, Christian Doctrine of Forgiveness, Essentials and Non-Essentials in Religion. Let us thank God for books. When I consider what some books have done for the world, and what they are doing; how they keep up our hope, awaken new courage and faith, soothe pain, give an ideal life to those whose homes are hard and cold, bind together distant ages and foreign lands, create new worlds of beauty, bring down truths from heaven,--I give eternal blessings for the gift, and pray that we may use it aright, and abuse it not.--J. Freeman Clarke.
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a city of West Virginia, the county-seat of Harrison co. It is on the Baltimore and Ohio, and the Monongahela Traction Co. railroads, and on the Monongahela river. The city has important manufacturing industries, including the manufacture of chemicals, fire brick, bottles, tableware, iron and tin plate, etc. It has an Elks' Home, and three hospitals, and is the center of an important coal, oil, and natural gas region. Pop. (1910) 9,201; (1920) 27,869.
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a city and countyseat of Montgomery co., Tenn., on the Cumberland and Red rivers, and the Louisville and Nashville and the Tennessee Central railroads, 50 miles N. W. of Nashville. It is the center of the great "dark tobacco belt," and has many tobacco factories. It is the seat of the Southwestern Presbyterian University (1874), and the State Odd Fellows' Home; has several manufactories, daily and weekly newspapers, a female acad- 22, 1809. She married Charles Cowden emy, high and graded public schools, 2 National banks, etc. Pop. (1910) 8,548; (1920) 8,110.
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Patrician and plebeian. The patrician Claudii were of Sabine origin, and came to Rome in B. C. 504, when they were received among the patricians. They were noted for their pride and haughtiness, their disdain for the laws, and their hatred of the plebeians. They bore various surnames. The plebeian Claudii were divided into several families, of which the most celebrated was that of Marcellus .
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