BRUSSELS SPROUTS

or Bra ica is a variety of B. oleracea, the a cruciferous plant. The main of the plant bears numerous leaf-buds in the axils of the leaves, bud a kind of pigmy cabbage. The are succulent, and are eaten as vegetable, coming into season in the Ru ian general: belonged to. Ru ian noble family; fought in Ru o-Turkish War (1877-8), later diof cavalry school for officers at commander of 14th Army (1909). In the World War he the Ru ian army which Galicia and cro ed Car path i ans of 1915. After the great retreat. his army group on the Ru ian advanced victoriously (June after the Ru ian revolution he d Alexeieff (June 1917) as imo under provisional govern and conducted temporarily sucoffensive; acknowledged com of the Soviet armies. 1920). hero. Immediate effect of ‘Roman of romances was Eng. effort to. England with Roman history; Brit. kings back to Brutus, whom banished descendant of the of Homer and Virgil. Ital. tribe in cla ical inhabited district now known as aided Pyrrhus against Rome, supported Hannibal; as punishment. territory was annexed by Rome, surname of members of were Lucius Junius, who to overthrow the Tarquin mon became one of first consuls great patriot of Shakespeare’s: Caesar, taken from Plutarch’s Lives; the latter was deeply Cesar, but joined in his (44); after defeat by August us, American educator; 6. Van Wert, He studied at Indiana, Harvard Clarke Universities, and taught at Butler College and University. Later he was general superintendent of in the Philippines. He resumed at Indiana University in 1903. ‘aed later he became President ranklin College, and in called to the presidency of University. His publications Nascent Stages and Their Significance, 1900; The Basis tical Teaching, 1905; and Facts for the Teacher, 1912.