Identifier: americanaunivers08newy (find matches)
Title: The Americana; a universal reference library, comprising the arts and sciences, literature, history, biography, geography, commerce, etc., of the world
Year: 1908 (1900s)
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Subjects: Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Publisher: New York : Scientific American Compiling Dept.
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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atti-tude in regard to sound money, and by his vetoprevented dangerous financial legislation. At the close of his administration. Mr. Hayesreturned to private life. His interest in educa-tion was shown by the work done as a memberof the boards of trustees of the Ohio WesleyanUniversity at Delaware and the Ohio State Uni-versitj- at (Tolumbus. Hayes Hall at the latterinstitution bears his name because of his devotionto the cause of manual training. He was alsopresident of the John F. Slater Educational Fundand gave much time to its proper distribution..\s president of the National Prison ReformAssociation he did much to educate the public toa more humane way of thinking about the treat-ment of convicts, many of his public utteranceshave become maxims in prison management, andhis work along these lines has been exceedinglyvaluable and permanent in it? results. Hayes River, called Hill River in theupper part of its course, rises near Lake Winni-peg, in Canada, and flows northeast through
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RUTHERFORD BIRCHARD HAYES, NINETEENTH PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES. HAYESINE — HAYNE Oxford or Holy Lake, Knee Lake, and severalother lakes, into James Bay, near the mouthof the Xelson River. The largest tributariesare the Shamattawa and the Fox. The lengthof the Hayes is about 300 miles, Hayesine, hazin, a hydrous borate of cal-cium, occurring as a sediment consisting ofsnowy-white, silky flakes, in the waters of hotsprings in Chile. It is a somewhat uncertainspecies, and is perhaps to be referred in part tobechilite, and in part to ulexite. In the UnitedStates, specimens are reported from Bergen Hill,N. J. (Named in honor of A. A. Hajes (q.v.),an American chemist.) Haygood, Atticus Green, American Meth-odist bishop: b. Watkinsville. Ga.. 19 Xov. 1839;d. Oxford, Ga., 19 Jan. 1896. He was educatedat Emor\ College, Ga., of which he was presi-dent 1876-90, becoming in the last named yearbishop of the Methodist Church South. Hebecame bishop in 1890. He wrote: The Monkand the Prince,

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