MARY HARRIOTT NORRIS
\mˈe͡əɹi hˈaɹɪət nˈɒɹɪs], \mˈeəɹi hˈaɹɪət nˈɒɹɪs], \m_ˈeə_ɹ_i h_ˈa_ɹ_ɪ__ə_t n_ˈɒ_ɹ_ɪ_s]\
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An American author and educator; born in Boonton, N. J., March 16, 1848. She was founder and principal of a private school in New York, 1870-98, and dean of women, at Northwestern University, 1898-99. Among her numerous published works are: "Fraulein Mina" (1872); "Ben and Bentie Series" (1873-76); "Phebe" (1890); "Afterward" (1893); "John Applegate, Surgeon" (1894); "The Gray House of the Quarries" (1898); "The Veil" (1907).
By Charles Dudley Warner
Word of the day
basidiomycota
- comprises fungi bearing the spores on basidium: Gasteromycetes (puffballs); Tiliomycetes (comprising orders Ustilaginales (smuts) and Uredinales (rusts)); Hymenomycetes (mushrooms; toadstools; agarics; bracket fungi); in some classification systems considered a division of kingdom comprises fungi bearing spores on a basidium; includes Gasteromycetes (puffballs) Tiliomycetes comprising the orders Ustilaginales (smuts) and Uredinales (rusts) Hymenomycetes (mushrooms, toadstools, agarics bracket fungi).