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Kansas	Indian; from kanza, meaning Swift and Wind. It also is said to mean Smoky Water	Sunflower State.
Kentucky	Indian word meaning The Barrens and Prairie	Bluegrass State.
Louisiana	Latin form meaning Land of (King) Louis	Creole, Pelican or Canebrake State.
Maine	French name of a province; or English “main,” to distinguish the mainland from the islands	Pinetree State.
Maryland	English name for the queen of Charles I of England	Old-Line State.
Massachusetts	Indian name meaning Place of Great Hills	Bay State.
Michigan	Indian name meaning the Great Lake	Peninsular or Wolverine State.
Minnesota	Indian name meaning Sky-colored Water	Bread and Butter, or Gopher, or North Star State.
Mississippi	Indian name meaning Father of Waters or Great River	Bayou State.
Missouri	Indian name meaning The Big Muddy	Bullion State.
Montana	Spanish for mountain	Mountain or Treasure State.
Nebraska	Indian name meaning Shallow Water or Water Valley	Tree-Planter State.
Nevada	Spanish for snow-covered	Sage-Brush or Sage-Hen State
New Hampshire	English name for a county in England	Granite State.
New Jersey	English name of an island in the English Channel	Garden State.
New York	English name of a city in England and of a duchy	Empire State.
North Carolina	Latin form meaning Country of (King) Charles	Old North, or Tarheel, or Turpentine State.
North Dakota	Indian name of tribes meaning Allies	Flickertail State.
Ohio	Indian name meaning The Beautiful River	Buckeye State.
Oklahoma	Indian name meaning Land of the Fair God
Oregon		Beaver or Sunset State.
Pennsylvania	Latin form meaning Penn's Woodland	Keystone State.
Rhode Island	Dutch name meaning Red Island	Little Rhody.
South Carolina	See North Carolina	Palmetto State.
South Dakota	See North Dakota	Coyote or Sunshine State.
Tennessee	Indian name meaning The River of the Big Bend	Big Bend or Volunteer State.
Texas	Indian name of tribes meaning Confederates	Lone Star State.
Utah	Indian name of a tribe	Salt Lake State.
Vermont	French name meaning Green Mountains	Green Mountain State.
Virginia	Latin form meaning Virgin's Land, for Queen Elizabeth	Old Dominion State.
Washington	English and American name of a family	Corner or Evergreen State.
West Virginia	See Virginia	Panhandle State.
Wisconsin	Indian name meaning The Wild, Rushing River	Badger State.
Wyoming	Indian name meaning Great Plains	Equality State.

Alaska is an Inuit word meaning The Great Land; Arizona an Indian name that signifies The Place of Small Springs; Hawaii a Polynesian title; Mexico, as in New Mexico, is from the Aztec name of Mexitl, the Mexican war-god; Panama is an Indian or Spanish name; Philippines is a Latinized Spanish form meaning Land of (King) Philip (of Spain), Filipino meaning an inhabitant of the Philippines; and Porto Rico is a Spanish term meaning Rich Port.

United States Steel Cor′pora′tion. This corporation is the world's greatest combination of capital. It was organized under the laws of New Jersey in March, 1901, being formed from ten large corporations, each of which was itself a consolidation of several smaller companies. Its total capitalization is $1,404,000,000, or nearly half of all the money in the United States; it represents one sixty-seventh of the total wealth of the United States in 1900. The corporation, when founded, exercised direct and positive control over 213 manufacturing and transporting plants and companies and over 41 mines in 18 states. One hundred of the manufacturing plants were in Pennsylvania, 51 in Ohio, 15 in Illinois, 12 in Indiana, 12 in New York and the rest scattered from Connecticut to California. Its mines furnished more than half of the total production of iron-ore in the United States, four fifths of the bessemer steel and two thirds of the steel rails. It controlled 1,000 miles of railroads and a lake-fleet of 112 vessels, one third of the tonnage on the northern lakes. By “community of ownership” it controlled the anthracite fields of Pennsylvania, thousands of miles of railroads and an ocean steamship line. It has rapidly increased its holdings. The company controls steel interests in America. Our steel exports in 1900 were valued at $130,000,000. Manufacturers of other countries look upon this concentration of interests as a strengthening of American exporting capacity.

U′niver′sity, a higher educational institution, having the right to give degrees in several departments of learning and with a body of teachers or faculty in each of the different schools or colleges connected with it. The modern university, dating back to the 12th or 13th century, is thought to be the outgrowth of the schools connected with the convents and monasteries throughout Europe. When some popular teacher, as Abelard or Peter Lombard, drew crowds of students, these usually formed themselves into a corporation to which was given the name of universitas. Some of the early universities, as that of Paris, were formed by a body of teachers, while others, as Bologna, were corporations of students. The faculties of a university are the teachers in particular departments, as the faculty of law, faculty of arts etc. The two highest officers of a university have usually been the rector and chancellor. A degree is given by the university when a student has passed through a certain part of the course of study. The degree of doctor or master at first entitled the person who received it to teach in the university giving the degree. Pope Nicholas I near the end of the 13th