AMES  , a See also:

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

city of See also:

• STORY, JOHN (c. 1510-1571)
• STORY, JOSEPH (1779-1845)
• STORY, ROBERT HERBERT (1835-1907)
• STORY, WILLIAM WETMORE (1819—1895)

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
• CHICAGO, UNIVERSITY OF

Chicago & See also:

• NORTH
• NORTH, BARONS
• NORTH, MARIANNE (1830—1890)
• NORTH, ROGER (1653-1734)
• NORTH, SIR THOMAS (1535?-16o1?)

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
• STATE, GREAT OFFICERS OF

state See also:

• COLLEGE (Collegium)

college of See also:

• AGRICULTURE
• AGRICULTURE (from Lat. ages, field, and colere, to cultivate)
• AGRICULTURE, BOARD OF

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
• ANIMAL (Lat. animalis, from anima, breath, soul)

animal husbandry, dairying, domestic See also:

• ECONOMY

economy, See also:

• GENERAL
• GENERAL (Lat. generalis, of or relating to a genus, kind or class)

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
• ELECTRICAL (or ELECTROSTATIC) MACHINE

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, JOHN STRANGE
• WINTER, PETER (c. 1755-1825)

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
• CARNEGIE, ANDREW (1837– )

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 (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
• TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
• TIME, STANDARD

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 .