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AMES , a See also:

CITY (through Fr. cite, from Lat. civitas)

city of See also:

Story See also:

COUNTY (through Norm. Fr. comae, cf. O. Fr. cunte, conk', Mod. Fr. comae, from Lat. comitatus, cf. Ital. comitato, Prov. comtat; see COUNT)

county, See also:

IOWA

Iowa, U.S.A., about 35 M. N. of See also:

DES

Des Moines, at the intersection of two lines of the See also:

Chicago & See also:

North-Western railway. Pop. (189o) 1276; (1900) 2422; (1910 U. S. See also:

CENSUS (from Lat. censere, to estimate or assess; connected by some with centum, i.e. a count by hundreds)

census) 4223. The city is the seat of the See also:

state See also:

COLLEGE (Collegium)

college of See also:

agriculture and mechanic arts; this institution, opened in 1869, has for its use about 1175 acres of See also:

LAND

land, on which the state has erected, at a cost of $1,200,000, See also:

THIRTY

thirty-two college buildings, besides dwelling-houses and buildings for See also:

FARM

farm purposes. On the college campus are beautiful groves containing several See also:

HUNDRED

hundred varieties of trees, and in a central position stands a campanile with excellent chimes. The college offers four-See also:

YEAR

year courses in agronomy, See also:

animal husbandry, dairying, domestic See also:

ECONOMY

economy, See also:

general See also:

SCIENCE (Lat. scientia, from scire; to learn, know)

science, veterinary See also:

MEDICINE

medicine, and See also:

CIVIL

civil, See also:

MECHANICAL

mechanical, See also:

electrical and See also:

MINING

mining See also:

ENGINEERING

engineering. In 1909-1910 it had an enrollment of 2631 students (including 796 in the See also:

winter See also:

SHORT, FRANCIS JOB (1857– )

short course) and a library of 23,000 volumes. The cost of instruction and experimentation is met by the income from See also:

NATIONAL

national grants (under the See also:

MORRILL, JUSTIN SMITH (1810–1898)

Morrill Acts of 1862 and 1882) and by state appropriations. Ames has a See also:

Carnegie library, and owns and operates its electric-See also:

LIGHTING

lighting plant and waterworks. It was laid out as a See also:

TOWN

town in 1864 and was named in See also:

HONOUR (Lat. honos or lwnor, honoris; in English the word was spelled with or without the u indifferently until the 17th century, but during the 18th century it became fashion-able to spell the word " honor "; Johnson's and Webster's Dictionaries stereoty

honour of Oakes Ames, at the See also:

time one of the proprietors of the See also:

CEDAR (Lat. cedrus, Gr. iapos)

Cedar Rapids & See also:

MISSOURI

Missouri See also:

RIVER

River railway (now See also:

PART

part of the Chicago & North-Western); five years later it was incorporated.

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