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railways, and by two electric lines. The city is an important residential suburb of Chicago. In 1908 the Evanston public library had 41,430 volumes. In the city are the See also:

COLLEGE (Collegium)

College of Liberal Arts (1855), the See also:

Academy (186o), and the See also:

SCHOOLS

schools of See also:

MUSIC

music (1895) and See also:

ENGINEERING

engineering (1908) of North-western University, co-educational, chartered in 1851, opened in 1855, the largest school of the Methodist Episcopal See also:

Church in See also:

AMERICA

America. In 1909–1910 it had productive funds amounting to about $7,5och000, and, including all the allied schools, a See also:

FACULTY (through the French, from the Lat. facultas, ability to do anything, from facilis, easy, facere, to do; another form of the word in Lat. facilitas, facility, ease, keeps the original meaning)

faculty of See also:

EVANSVILLE

EVANSVILLE 418 instructors and 4487 students; its schools of See also:

MEDICINE

medicine (1869), See also:

law (1859), See also:

PHARMACY

pharmacy (1886), See also:

commerce (1908) and See also:

DENTISTRY (from Lat. dens, a tooth)

dentistry (1887) are in Chicago. In 1909 its library had 114,869 volumes and 79,000 See also:

PAMPHLETS

pamphlets (exclusive of the See also:

LIBRARIES

libraries of the professional schools in Chicago) ; and the See also:

GARRETT, JOAO BAPTISTA DA SILVA LEITAO DE ALMEIDA, VISCONDE DE

Garrett Biblical See also:

INSTITUTE (from Lat. instituere, to establish or set up)

Institute had a library of 25,671 volumes and 4500 pamphlets. The university maintains the See also:

GRAND

Grand See also:

PRAIRIE (adopted from the Fr. prairie, a meadow-tract. Late Lat. prataria, Lat. pratum, meadow)

Prairie See also:

SEMINARY (Lat. seminarium, from semen, seed)

Seminary at Onarga, See also:

IROQUOIS

Iroquois county, and the See also:

ELGIN

Elgin Academy at Elgin, See also:

Kane county.

Enjoying the privileges of the university, though actually See also:

INDEPENDENT

independent of it, are the Garrett Biblical Institute (Evanston Theological Seminary), founded in 1855, situated on the university campus, and probably the best-endowed Methodist Episcopal theological seminary in the See also:

UNITED

United States, and affiliated with the Institute, the See also:

NORWEGIAN

Norwegian Danish Theological school; and the See also:

SWEDISH

Swedish Theological Seminary, founded at See also:

GALESBURG

Galesburg in .1870, removed to Evanston in 1882, and occupying buildings on the university campus until 1907, when it removed to Orrington See also:

AVENUE (the past participle feminine of Fr. avenir, to come to)

Avenue and Noyes See also:

Street. The Cumnock School of See also:

ORATORY (Lat. oratorio, sc. ors; from orare, to speak or pray)

Oratory, at Evanston, also co-operates with the university. By the See also:

CHARTER (Lat. charta, carta, from Gr. Xap-rns, originally for papyrus, material for writing, thence transferred to paper and from this material to the document, in O. Eng. boc, book)

charter of the university the See also:

sale of intoxicating liquors is forbidden within 4 M. of the university campus. The manufacturing importance of the city is slight, but is rapidly increasing. The See also:

PRINCIPAL

principal manufactures are wrought See also:

IRON [symbol Fe, atomic weight 55.85 (0=16)]

iron and See also:

STEEL, FLORA ANNIE (1847– )

steel See also:

PIPE

pipe, bakers' machinery and bricks. In 1905 the value of the factory products was $2,550,529, being an increase of 207'3% since 190o. ; In Evanston are the See also:

PUBLISHING

publishing offices of the See also:

NATIONAL

National Woman's See also:

Christian See also:

TEMPERANCE

Temperance See also:

Union. Evanston was incorporated as a See also:

TOWN

town in 1863 and as a See also:

VILLAGE

village in 1872, and was chartered as a city in 1892. The villages of North Evanston and See also:

South Evanston were annexed to Evanston. in 1874 and 1892 respectively.

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