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Exercise has always been a source of enjoyment to Professor Lanman. When the Hemenway Gymnasium was completed, he spent many hours on the track, counting the laps by reciting the letters of the Hebrew alphabet. Since the building of the Charles River dam, he has rowed more than 7,000 miles in an 11-foot shell. He celebrated his seventieth birthday by a pull to Watertown Dam and back. "Thus," he says, "I have tried to keep up through mature life the bodily activity to which I was used...
...department official realized the mistake. Nobody knew it, that is, who was in a position to have it changed or to mention the mistake to those who might. Imagine the countless distinguished foreign visitors who have been escorted in honor through the gates of the Academy, and whose second alphabet is heraldry. The permanent twinkle that possessed Papa Joffre's eye as he returned to New York down the Hudson at last finds explanation in the "goods" he had on General Pershing and his fellow graduates...
...learned philologists deliberating. These worthy scholars have bestowed upon Mr. I the superlative degree hence his fame-- by declaring that his "must be the shortest name in existence, as it is composed of but one letter and the letter which uses less ink than any other of the alphabet...
...question was raised in the Ministry of Education of introducing the Roman alphabet, which is the one we use in writing English, instead of the modified Greek character in which Russian has always been written. Psychologists claim that the Roman small letters, with their projections above and below the line, present a contour more readily grasped by the eye than the 'solid blocks of Russian lower case characters. Thus MAJILHHK which
...scientificizing' the Russian alphabet...