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Legislation By The Courts, W. G. Hastings

Mid-West Quarterly (1913–1918)

It is remarkable that in this second century of the republic our courts should be so vehemently assailed for interference in legislation. One who knew of our duplex governments only by study of their written constitutions would open his eyes when told that there is any such thing under them as legislation by the courts. The citizen of Nebraska lives under a constitution which devotes an entire article to declaring, not only that the executive, legislative, and judicial departments of its state government are and must be kept distinct, but that no person in anyone of them, except as specially …

Professorial Ethics, Edgar L. Hinman

Mid-West Quarterly (1913–1918)

We are aware that a lawyer, by the very nature of his profession, comes into peculiar relations with his clients, and therefore with other lawyers, with the courts, and with the outside world. By reason of the trust that is reposed in him, there are many things which he might do in an underhand way to gain personal advantage. All this, however, has been in some degree rectified by the development of a code of professional ethics, of such character that the man who offends against it is damaged by a certain loss of caste. The physician, in like manner, …

The Revolution In Portugal, Guernsey Jones

Mid-West Quarterly (1913–1918)

The lower classes in Portugal, particularly in the country, are as hard working, sober, peaceable, and well-mannered a people as one could hope to find. They are, however, incredibly ignorant. To me it was a joy and wonder to find in Lisbon that the servants could not tell time by the clock, and that they thought the French tongue was merely an impediment of speech. I twas a temptation never before dreamed of and triumphantly endured, to discover that the washerwoman would accept with childlike faith whatever was offered her because she could not count money. As for reading and …

Socrates And The Street Car, Horace M. Kallen

Mid-West Quarterly (1913–1918)

It was at half past ten in the morning that they took me down to the operating room, weary with pain and numb with morphine. Upon my closed eyes I felt, for an instant, the soft, cool touch of the doctor's hand, succeeded immediately after by the warmth and woolliness of gauze and by the pressure of the rubber hood over my nose and chin. I wriggled a moment, coughed, and the pressure vanished. When it came again it brought with it the pungent sweetness of ether. I breathed deep, gasped and breathed deeper, gasped again and pumped for breath, …

The Russian Merchant Marine, Edwin Maxey

Mid-West Quarterly (1913–1918)

The rise of the Russian merchant marine is more intimately bound up with national politics than is that of any other of the merchant marines of the world. It will be necessary, therefore, in discussing its development, to call attention to the political conditions which furnished the impetus to the development of the merchant fleets of Russia. The subject, in other words, is not purely a business one, but is in part political.

The Modern Ideal Of Culture, Edward A. Thurber

Mid-West Quarterly (1913–1918)

A definition of modern culture as something realised and actual ought not to be too elusive, especially as it can be spoken of in concrete terms. It is possible to point to certain men and say, "There are cultivated men; the qualities they possess evidently go to make up culture." By way of approach, suppose we recall Matthew Arnold's sentence: "Notwithstanding the mighty results of the Pilgrim Fathers' voyage, they and their standard of perfection are rightly judged when we figure to ourselves Shakespeare or Virgil - souls in whom sweetness and light, and all that in human nature is …

Bulletin 141, Irrigated Field Crops In Western, Nebraska, 1914

University of Nebraska Historical Extension: Bulletin

Bulletin 141, Irrigated Field Crops in Western, Nebraska, 1914

Bulletin 144, Ground Wheat Versus Whole Wheat For Fattening Pigs, 1914

University of Nebraska Historical Extension: Bulletin

Bulletin 144, Ground Wheat versus Whole Wheat for Fattening Pigs, 1914

Plant Tissue In The Carboniferous Shales Of Nebraska, Erwin H. Barbour

Conservation and Survey Division: Faculty and Staff Publications

While exploring the newly discovered Eurypterid beds,¹ just one mile south of Peru, Nebraska. November 8, 1912, the writer found unusual amounts of actual plant tissue of Carboniferous age. It seems incredible that it should have been preserved through such a lapse of time. Only the most resistant tissue could have endured. When freshly cleaved, the Eurypterid shales reveal innumerable bits and patches of it, mostly bright red in color.

Multiple Factors Vs. "Golden Mean" In Size Inheritance, R. A. Emerson

Department of Agronomy and Horticulture: Faculty Publications

Groth's preliminary note on the "golden mean" in the inheritance of sizes in SCIENCE of April 17, 1914, pp. 581-584, deserves the attention of geneticists. Its publication is of such recent date that I need only call attention to one or two points that seem to me of particular moment.

In brief, Groth's hypothesis is that the mode

of inheritance in F_l not only of surfaces and

volumes, but also of linear dimensions is to be

expressed by √ab rather than by a + b /2

where a and b are parent sizes. The hypothesis

is based upon …

Contributions To A Science Of Nematology, Nathan Augustus Cobb

Harold W. Manter Laboratory of Parasitology: Faculty Publications

Contents

I. Antarctic Marine Free-Living Nematodes of the Shackleton Expedition.

II. North American Free-Living Fresh-Water Nematodes.

III. The Asymmetry of the Nematode Bunonema inequale, n. sp.

IV. Selachinema, a New Nematode Genus with Remarkable Mandibles.

V. Notes on Nemas.

VI. The Mononchs, a Genus of Free-Living Predatory Nematodes.

VII. Filter-Bed Nemas: Nematodes of the Slow Sand Filter-Beds of American Cities.

VIII. The Orders and Classes of Nemas.

IX. One Hundred New Nemas (Type Species of 100 New Genera).

X. Howardula benigna, a Nemic Parasite Cucumber-Beetle.

XI. Marionella.

XII. Greeffiella.

XIII. An Amendation of Hoplolaimus …

Rocky Mountain Flowers, Frederic E. Clements, Edith Schwartz Clements

School of Biological Sciences: Faculty Publications

AN ILLUSTRATED GUIDE FOR PLANT-LOVERS AND PLANT-USERS WITH TWENTY-FIVE PLATES IN COLOR AND TWENTY-TWO PLATES IN BLACK AND WHITE

The present book is an endeavor to present the materials of the Rocky Mountain flora in preliminary form from the standpoint of the experimental ecologist. The latter is concerned primarily with the relationships of "species" and their subdivisions as an organic expression or measure of habitat differences, and of the competitive relations of the various formations. Whatever the taxonomic value of the numerous segregates of the last decade or two, the fact that the binomial form conceals the relationship to the …

Three American Singers: Louise Homer, Geraldine Farrar, Olive Fremstad, Willa Sibert Cather

Music and Literature Archive

"THREE women are at this moment dominating the most critical audience and the most splendid operatic stage in the world— the Metropolitan Opera House of New York. One of these women came out of a new, crude country, fought her way against every kind of obstacle, and conquered by sheer power of will and character. One of them has lived a sort of fairy-tale of good fortune from the time she began to sing. Each one has achieved a supremely individual success. The careers of these three great singers make one of the most interesting stories in the history of …

The Southwestern Cowboy Songs And The English And Scottish Popular Ballads, Louise Pound

Department of English: Faculty Publications

Several writers recently have found analogy between the conditions attending the growth of cowboy songs in isolated communities in the Southwest, and the conditions under which arose the English and Scottish popular ballads—those problematic pieces which form so special a chapter in the history of English poetry. Mr. Lomax, the chief collector of southwestern folk songs, notes, when speaking of western communities, how "illiterate people and people cut off from newspapers and books, isolated and lonely—thrown back on primal resources for entertainment and for the expression of emotion—utter themselves through somewhat the same character of songs as did their forefathers …

Studies On The Relation Of The Nonavailable Water Of The Soil To The Hygroscopic Coefficient, F. J. Always

Nebraska Agricultural Experiment Station: Historical Research Bulletins

These experiments were carried out in connection with and subordinate to various soil investigations, the object being to determine the relation of the final water content of the soil to the hygroscopic coefficient and to determine to what extent the moisture was removed from the different portions of the subsoil not penetrated by plant roots.

The Inheritance Of Quantitative Characters In Maize, R. A. Emerson, E. M. East

Nebraska Agricultural Experiment Station: Historical Research Bulletins

The experiments conducted by one of the writers were begun at the Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station at New Haven in 1906 and removed to the Bussey Institution of Harvard University at Forest Hills, Massachusetts, in 1909. The materials employed in this study consisted principally of crosses of Tom Thumb pop with Black Mexican sweet and of Watson flint with Leaming dent. The number of rows per ear were noted in several other crosses, the parents of which are listed later in this paper. The experiments of the other writer were begun at the Nebraska Agricultural Experiment Station at Lincoln in …

A Dry Rot Of The Irish Potato Tuber, E. Mead Wilcox, George K.K. Link, Venus W. Pool

Nebraska Agricultural Experiment Station: Historical Research Bulletins

The first specimens of the dry rot herein described were received by the department of Agricultural Botany during the winter of 1907-1908 from western Nebraska. A preliminary survey of the situation showed clearly the importance of this new rot, and an exhaustive investigation of the disease was outlined and has been continued to the present time. The present publication gives the results secured to date in our investigation of this disease.

Research Bulletin 1, Dry Rot Of The Irish Potato Tuber, 1913

University of Nebraska Historical Extension: Bulletin

Research Bulletin 1, Dry Rot of the Irish Potato Tuber, 1913

Connecticut Soldiers In The Pequot War Of 1637 (1913), James Shepard

Electronic Texts in American Studies

“With Proof of Service, a Brief Record for Identification, and References to Various Publications in Which Further Data May Be Found.”

The plan of the compiler is to present, for the first time, a complete list of the Connecticut men in the Pequot War, as given in various compilations of the several authors who have made a special study of the subject in connection with the history of one or more of the three river towns; together with the places from which they are said to have enlisted and the authority for the same. We have not attempted to verify …

The Oregon Recruit Expedition, Albert Watkins

Mid-West Quarterly (1913–1918)

The object of early travel from the Missouri River to the region beyond the Rocky Mountains was, first, exploration, as in the example of the expeditions of Lewis and Clark and Fremont; second, trapping and trading; third, the colonization of Oregon; fourth, the reaching of the California and intra-montane gold mines; fifth, the transportation of soldiers and military supplies for the protection of these enterprises from hostile Indians. Prior to the period of transcontinental railroad-building there were several rival experimental routes to the northerly part of those regions and more particularly to Oregon; but the Platte River route, known as …

Magnacum Confusione, Philo M. Buck, Jr.

Mid-West Quarterly (1913–1918)

"--And I carried away from college a suit case of clothes and a packing case of notebooks. These were all I had left after paying my commencement bills, for the notebooks had no commercial value, nor any other, so far as my use of them has shown, as I have never looked in them since. And isn't that a fair allegory of your college education?"

Jones was speaking, a little bitterly for him, for usually he was the most sunny of high-school principals. We had been exchanging reminiscences during the last courses of an excellent luncheon served by a domestic …

Indefinite Composites And Word-Coinage, Louise Pound

Department of English: Faculty Publications

Recognition of ‘blending' as a mode of word-formation, the telescoping of two or more words into one, as it were, or the superposition of one word upon another, is not new among etymologists, although the subject has never been given separate or very elaborate treatment. Some instances of these factitious amalgam forms, the 'portmanteau words' of Lewis Carroll’s Through the Looking Glass, the blend or fusion forms of etymologists or lexicographers, are dumbfound from dumb and confound, dang from damn and hang, gerrymander from Elbridge Gerry and salamander, electrocute from electric and execute; probably boost from boom and hoist, …

Press Bulletin 43, Distribution And Use Of Hog Cholera Serum, 1913

University of Nebraska Historical Extension: Bulletin

Press Bulletin 43, Distribution and Use of Hog Cholera Serum, 1913

Research Bulletin 2, Inheritance Of Quantitative Characters In Maize, 1913

University of Nebraska Historical Extension: Bulletin

Research Bulletin 2, Inheritance of Quantitative Characters in Maize, 1913

Research Bulletin 3, Studies On The Relation Of The Non-Available Water To The Hygroscopic Coefficient, 1913

University of Nebraska Historical Extension: Bulletin

Research Bulletin 3, Studies on the Relation of the Non-available Water to the Hygroscopic Coefficient, 1913

Research Bulletin 4, Inheritance Of A Recurring Somatic Variation In Variegated Ears Of Maize, 1913

University of Nebraska Historical Extension: Bulletin

Research Bulletin 4, Inheritance of a Recurring Somatic Variation in Variegated Ears of Maize, 1913

A Minor Phenomenon Of The Glacial Drift In Nebraska, Erwin H. Barbour

Conservation and Survey Division: Faculty and Staff Publications

No abstract provided.

Ectoparasiten Und Abstammungslehre, Heinrich Fahrenholz

Harold W. Manter Laboratory of Parasitology: Library Materials

Bei Studien an parasitischen Milben im Jahre 1907 tauchte mir die Frage auf: Lassen sich aus dem Vorkommen gleicher oder verwandter Schmarotzer auf verschiedenen Wirten Rückschlüsse auf die Verwandtschaft letzterer machen?

Shorter Articles And Reports: The Simultaneous Modification Of Distinct Mendelian Factors, R. A. Emerson

Department of Agronomy and Horticulture: Faculty Publications

In another paper on the inheritance of a recurring somatic variation in variegated ears of maize, it was shown that the amount of red color developed in the pericarp of variegated seeds bears a definite relation to the development of color in the progeny of such seeds. The relation is such that the more color there is in the pericarp of the seeds planted the more likely are they to produce plants with wholly self-red ears and correspondingly the less likely to produce plants with variegated ears. Self-red ears thus produced behave just as if they were hybrids between self-red …

Two Lincoln (Nebraska) Typhoid Fever Epidemics Of 1911 And 1912., Herbert H. Waite

School of Biological Sciences: Faculty Publications

On August 29, 1912, I was requested by the Board of Health of the city of Lincoln to make an investigation to determine if possible the origin and cause of an outbreak of a disease reported as typhoid fever which was then prevailing. This outbreak was said to be most prevalent in one particular portion of the city and consequently attention was turned to that portion. Of the cases reported an investigation was made of over 60 individuals and after considering all the probable causes for the majority of those affected the conclusion was reached that all could be logically …