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Title: The American educator; completely remodelled and rewritten from original text of the New practical reference library, with new plans and additional material
Year: 1919 (1910s)
Authors: Foster, Ellsworth D., ed Hughes, James L. (James Laughlin), 1846-1935
Subjects: Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Publisher: Chicago, Ralph Durham Co.
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tion at Hebron and a biologicalstation at Devils Lake, a public-health labora-tory, the United States Weather Bureau andthe Geological Survey. In addition to theregular work of the university, extensioncourses are maintained. Women are admit-ted to all departments and constitute aboutone-half of the enrollment. Tuition is free.The faculty numbers over ninety, and thereare about 1,000 students. The library con-tains 62,000 volumes. NORTHER, the name given a cold northwind, which blows over Texas and the Gulfof Mexico, In winter it produces a coldwave and in summer a cool wave. Thesewinds sometimes start as far north as theNorthwest Territory in Canada and proceedsouthward, extending a blanket of cold airover the entire Mississippi Valley. Theyare usually predicted from twenty-four tothirty-six hours in advance, and warningsof their approach are given by the WeatherBureau. NORTHERN LIGHTS. See Aurora BOREALIS. NORTHERN TERRITORY, a vast area,523,620 square miles in extent, in the north-
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NORTH GERMAN CONFEDERATION 2603 NORTH POLAR EXPLORATION em part of Australia. The white populationis only about 3,500; the aborigines are be-lieved to number 20,000. Until 1911 thegovernment was administered by South Aus-tralia, but upon the establishment of theCommonwealth the Federal government as-sumed control of the territory. There is some agricultural activity, andmining prospects are good, A railway nowreaches from the southern part of the con-tinent to the north coast, a distance of 2,230miles; it brings the time for travel fromLondon to Adelaide to seventeen days. The capital of the territoiy is Darwin,formerly called Palmerston, on the northcoast. See Australia. NORTH GERMAN CONFEDERATION,the vmion, in 186C, of the German statesnorth of the Main, under the leadei-ship ofPrussia. When first organized it includedeighteen states; later the number was in-creased to twenty-two. A constitution wasadopted which was in the main that of thelater German Empire. With the unificationof

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