Each of these 14 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.
the name given to the people of Zanzibar and the opposite coast belonging to the Bantu stock, with an Arab infusion, and speaking a Bantu tongue modified by Arabic. The Swahili are intelligent and enterprising, and are in demand as porters by travelers into Central Africa. There is a collection of Swahili folk tales (1869) and a handbook by Bishop Steere (1871); and a dictionary by Krapf (1882).
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JOSEPH, an American educator; born in Pendleton, Ind., June 16, 1857; was graduated at the Indiana University in 1883, and taught there first as instructor in biology, then as assistant Professor of Mathematics in 1883-1886. and finally as full professor in 1886-1891. He was called to fill a chair in the Leland Stanford University in 1891, and continued there till 189 1893, when he was made president of the Indiana University. He is the author of numerous scientific papers and has been prominent in connection with various educational organizations. He has been president of Swarthmore since 1902. President of the National Educational Association 1913- 1914.
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in ornithology, any one of the numerous passerine birds of the family Hirundinadæ. In the United States the best known species are the barn swallow; the cliff, eaves, or chim ney swallow; the white bellied or tree swallow, and the bank swallow. The species usually described by naturalists as the type of the family is Hirundo rustica, a well-known European visitor, whose arrival from Africa (usually about the middle of April) is eagerly looked for as a sign of approaching summer. Swallows us usually arrive in pairs -a male and a female-though several pairs often form a small flight. They return with unfailing regularity to their old haunts, and in May commence building their nests. The eggs, from four to six in number, are white, spotted with a purple-red. The food of the swallow consists entirely of winged insects. These are captured as the birds fly with open mouth, the bristles with which the gap is supplied and the viscid saliva assisting to retain the prey. Like owls, swallows reject the undigested portions of their food in small pellets or castings. The male is about 8 inches long, beak black, forehead, chin, and throat, chestnut; head, neck, back, rump, and upper tail coverts steel-blue; tail very much forked; under surface buffy-white, legs and toes slender and black, claws black and sharp. In the female the tail feathers are not so long.
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in ornithology, a popular name for any individual of the family Artamidæ. They resemble swallows in their actions and general mode of life, while in the shape of their bills they exhibit great affinities to some of the shrikes and crow shrikes.
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in zoölogy, the Rucervus duvaucelli, from India and Assam. It is about 4 feet in height, rich light yellow in color, and congregates in large herds in moist situations. The antlers are large, with a long beam, which branches into an anterior continuation of the main portion, and a smaller posterior tyne which is bifurcated.
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a town of Massachusetts, in Essex co. It is on the Boston and Maine railroad. From its attractive situation it is a favorite summer resort. Fishing is an important industry. There are parks, and a public library. It is ent to the seat of the Phillips School. Pop. swan (C. nigricollis), from South Amer- (1910) 6,204; (1920) 8,101.
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a river in Western Australia, which colony was originally known as the "Swan River Settlement." Fr Perth, the capital of the colony, is on the Swan river, and Fremantle is at its mouth.
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the name for a fine, soft, thick, woolen cloth; or more commonly for a thick cotton cloth with a soft nap on one side.
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coa educational institution for higher education, founded in 1864, by the Society of Friends of Swarthmore, Pa. In 1919 there were 487 students and 45 instructors. President, Joseph Swain.
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MIFFLIN WYATT, an American educator, born at Winchester, Va., in 1874. He was educated at the University of Chicago and began teaching at Fort Worth, Texas, in 1900, becoming president of the Woman's College of Alabama in 1915. He was a member of the Southern Association of Schools and Colleges and wrote "Personal and Dramatic Characteristics of the Old in the Dramas of Euripides" (1910).
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or SUWAT, a region in Central Asia, W. of the upper Indus river. It is but little known. Its ruler is a chief, called the Akhoond.
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a seaport of China which has been opened to foreign trade since 1869; at the mouth of the Han river, 225 miles E. of Canton, in the province of Kwang-tung. It is the seat of great sugar refineries, and bean cake and grass cloth manufactures. Imports (1919) $30,000,000; exports, $11,000,000. The imports consist principally of bean cake and beans, cottons, opium, rice, metals, hemp, silks and woolens, and wheat. Sugar forms the chief item among the exports; besides it tobacco, cloth and nankeens, joss paper, grass cloth (made from a kind of hemp fiber), and tea are sent abroad. Pop. 110,000.
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a South African native state; on the W. side of the Libomba mountains, and forming geographically an intrusion into the E. side of the Transvaal Colony. It has an area of 6,678 square miles; a pop. of 99,959 natives and 1,700 Europeans. Tobacco, maize, millet, and ground nuts are raised. Considerable tin is exported. The territory is rich in minerals that await development. Revenues (1919) £70,842. Expenditure £82,006. In 1906 the administration of the state was given to the High Commissioner of South Africa. The independence of this little state was recognized by its powerful neighbors, the South African republic (now the Orange River Colony) and the British Government, in 1884; in 1890 the white settlers, mainly gold miners, were put under joint "gov joint "government commit " appointed by Great Britain and the Boers.
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the system by which sub-contractors undertake to do work in their own houses or small workshops, and employ others to do it, making a profit for themselves by the difference between the contract prices and the wages they pay their assistants. Laws have been enacted both in England and the United States to regulate the system, and providing penalties for the employment of children and others in overcrowded and ill-ventilated "sweat shops."
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