. Bates Student. d mixed withcotton. The next process is the card-ing. The purpose of the picking andcarding is to pull the fibers apart. Oilis used to prevent sticking to the spinning wheel then twists it intoyarn, and the weaver converts it into(doth. lie said that in the case of coloredclothes the wool must be first dyedin dye vats. Dyes at present, he ex-plained, are many times higher thanbefore the war, due to their scarcity. Different grades of black color are made by mixing different percentages ofblack aiul white wools. The waste goesback to the picking room, usually beingcol
. Bates Student. d mixed withcotton. The next process is the card-ing. The purpose of the picking andcarding is to pull the fibers apart. Oilis used to prevent sticking to the spinning wheel then twists it intoyarn, and the weaver converts it into(doth. lie said that in the case of coloredclothes the wool must be first dyedin dye vats. Dyes at present, he ex-plained, are many times higher thanbefore the war, due to their scarcity. Different grades of black color are made by mixing different percentages ofblack aiul white wools. The waste goesback to the picking room, usually beingcolored unless it is black. lie exhibited samples of wool in thedifferent stages of its manufacture in-to cloth, as well as the various grada-tions in color. Mr. Swett, the chairman of the execu-tive committee, reported that it wasplanned to hold the trip to Portlandon Friday, Arpil 21. The purpose ofthe trip is to give the members of thesociety an opportunity to see the work-ings of some of the The lecture lists at the German univer-sities have been published, and give strongevidence of the effect of the war on thecurriculum. It the University of Leip-zig is taken as an example, there are inthe medical faculty six professors lectur-ing on war surgery and allied subjects;in the law faculty, four devoting them-selves to international and treaty law, andthe common law of England. The moststriking effect of the war is found in thephilosophical faculty, which includes phi-lology. Here, there arc lectures on Ori-ental words in use in German, Turkishprose, Egyptian language and literature,modern Arabic, the vernacular of Egypt, Roumanian ami Bulgarian, Balkan ques-tions, and the economic geography of theBalkan Peninsula. The number of universities, colleges,and normal schools which have adoptedsimplified spelling is 144, a gain of f>7in the past year, according to a reportmade to the simplified spelling board atits annual meeting. In these institutionsthere are
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