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Excerpt from Paving the Business Section of Tama, Iowa With Vitrified Brick: A Thesis Presented by Charles W. Collins to the President and Faculty of Armour Institute of Technology for the Degree of Civil EngineerWhen contemplating a new improvement, such as a water supply, sewer, or street paving system, the majority of small towns, not having sufficient work to retain an Engineer the entire year, will call on a Consulting Engineer to draw up...

Excerpt from The Uses of Adversity: And Other EssaysThe most interesting thing about life is that the spectator sees it through two small win dows which, though limiting his range, provide in turn a wealth of detail and a vista of bound less variety and charm. The moving procession, the still background have, of course, an objective reality, but each individual brings to the survey a store of memories and a mental viewpoint all his own.About t...

Excerpt from Great Love Stories, of the Theatre: A Record of Theatrical RomanceThe tinselled thrones of player-queens enjoy one prerogative, at least, of actual royalty, they too stand within the fierce white light of public attention. Apologies, therefore, need not be made to the memories of the long-dead actresses whose amorous exploits are recounted in the present volume, their intrigues have been permanently photographed into theatrical hi...

Excerpt from The Acadians of Madawaska, MaineThis long, narrow valley is fringed on both sides of the St. John with a line of farms which extend almost continuously throughout the 90 miles of its length, and though the line gathers in some two or three places into the semblance of a town, it is ordinarily a thin, double line of habitation hemmed in behind by vast forests. On the Canadian side a lazy railroad creeps up the river for 70 miles or...

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Originally published between 1909 and 1917 under the name "Harvard Classics, " this stupendous 51-volume set-a collection of the greatest writings from literature, philosophy, history, and mythology-was assembled by American academic CHARLES WILLIAM ELIOT (1834-1926), Harvard University's longest-serving president. Also known as "Dr. Eliot's Five Foot Shelf, " it represented Eliot's belief that a basic liberal education could be gleaned by rea...

Originally published between 1909 and 1917 under the name "Harvard Classics, " this stupendous 51-volume set-a collection of the greatest writings from literature, philosophy, history, and mythology-was assembled by American academic CHARLES WILLIAM ELIOT (1834-1926), Harvard University's longest-serving president. Also known as "Dr. Eliot's Five Foot Shelf, " it represented Eliot's belief that a basic liberal education could be gleaned by rea...

Excerpt from The Acadians of Madawaska, Maine This long, narrow valley is fringed on both sides of the St. John with a line of farms which extend almost continuously throughout the 90 miles of its length, and though the line gathers in some two or three places into the semblance of a town, it is ordinarily a thin, double line of habitation hemmed in behind by vast forests. On the Canadian side a lazy railroad creeps up the river for 70 miles ...

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Excerpt from Paving the Business Section of Tama, Iowa With Vitrified Brick: A Thesis Presented by Charles W. Collins to the President and Faculty of Armour Institute of Technology for the Degree of Civil Engineer When contemplating a new improvement, such as a prater supply, sewer, or street paving system, the majority of small towns, not having sufficient work to retain an Engineer the entire year, will call on a Consulting Engineer to draw...