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EVENING- STAB 68 EVIDENCE suit nearly 600,000 Germans attended night school during 1914. The number attending in the United States did not exceed 150,000. England surpassed even this record in evening school attendance, nearly 700,000 being given instmiction in 1914. The courses in England are more varied than elsewhere, and in most, cases lead to degrees, a most unusual affair in the States. The municipal gov- ernments have made the evening schools centers of the social activities of the young people of the city, and much at- tention is paid to physical education. EVENING STAR, the name given to any one of the planets that may be seen at certain seasons just above the horizon early in the evening; especially applied to the planet Venus on account of its brightness and beauty. Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn are the other evening stars. EVEREST, MOUNT, the highest known mountain in the world, situated in the Himalayas, in Nepal. It is 29,140 feet high, and was named in honor of Sir George Everest, a noted English sur- veyor and civil engineer. EVERETT, a city in Middlesex co., Mass., on the Boston and Maine railroad ; three miles N. of Boston. It was part of Maiden until 1870 and was incorpo- rated as a city in 1893. It has electric railway connections with Boston and neighboring cities, and iron, steel, and woolen mills, and varnish and chemical works. It contains several public schools, high school, Whidden Hospital, Shute and Parlin Libraries, the Home School, weekly newspapers, savings banks, etc. Pop. (1910) 33,484; (1920) 40,120. EVERETT, a city of Washington, the county-seat of Snohomish co. It is a port of entry and is at the mouth of the Snohomish river, on Puget Sound, and on the Great Northern, the Northern Pacific, and the Chicago, Milwaukee, and St. Paul railroads. It is also on several lines 01 freight and passenger steam- boats. It is the center of an important lumbering, gardening, and mining com- munity. There is an excellent harbor with facilities for docking vessels of large tonnage. The city has an impor- tant trade in lumber. Other industries include ship yards, paper and flour mills, iron works, and chemical works. It is the seat of the Pacific College and has a public library, hospitals, and the United States customs and assayer's offices. Pop. (1910) 24,814; (1920) 27,644. EVERETT, CHARLES CARROLL, clergyman; born in Brunswick, Me., June 19, 1829; was graduated at Bowdoin College; and studied at the University of Berlin. He returned to Bowdoin Col- lege, where he was tutor for two years, librarian for five, and Professor of Mod- ern Languages in 1855-1857. He was ordained pastor of the Independent Con- gregational Church in 1859; resigned in 1869 to become Professor of Theology in Harvard Divinity School; and was dean of the school from 1879 till his death. Among his published works are "The Science of Thought" (1869) ; "Religion Before Christianity" (1883) ; "Ethics for Young People" (1891); and "The Gospel of Paul" (1893). He died in Cambridge, Mass., Oct. 17, 1900. EVERETT, EDWARD, an American statesman; born in Dorchester, Mass., April 11, 1794. After traveling for some years in Germany and England he re- turned to America in 1819 to occupy the chair of Greek Literature at Harvard. He became editor of the "North Amer- ican Review," and entering the political world became successively member of Congress, governor of Massachusetts, and minister plenipotentiary to England (1840). In 1845 he was appointed presi- dent of Harvard College, and in 1852 Secretary of State. Shortly after he re- tired to private life. He died in Boston, Jan. 15, 1865. EVERGLADES, a low marshy tract of country in southern Florida, inundated with water and interspersed with patches or portions covered with high grass and trees. In recent years extensive drainage systems were established and about 1.- 000,000 acres of land have been reclaimed (1920). Owing to the richness of the soil of this territory the land is eagerly sought for farming purposes and it is expected that in a few years the remain- ing 2,700,000 acres will be reclaimed for agriculture. EVERGREEN, a plant that retains its verdure through all the seasons, as the fir, the holly, the laurel, the cedar, the cypress, the juniper, the holm-oak, and many others. EVIDENCE, that which makes evi- dent, which enables the mind to see truth. It may be intuitive, i. e., resting on the direct testimony of consciousness, of per- ception or memory, or on fundamental principles of the human intellect; or it may be demonstrative, i. e., in a strict sense, proofs which establish with cer- tainty as in mathematical science cer- tain conclusions; or it may be probable, under which class are ranked moral evi- dence, legal evidence, and generally every kind of evidence which, though it may be sufficient to satisfy the mind, is not an absolutely certain and incontrovertible demonstration. In jurisprudence evidence is classified