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With scientific aim, the modern world is slowly strangling its novelesque material. Lacking the palmer and the pilgrim, Sir Walter Scott's work might fall a trifle flat. Without magic and magicians, the "Arabian Nights" would never have been written. Sans tom-tom and medicine man, the ferocious savage of America has about him less awful mystery...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A NOVEL SHORTAGE | 2/19/1926 | See Source »

...London, Ont., and Sydney, Australia; recent buyer of a plant of the Quaker Oats Co. and another of the Purity Oats Co.; owner of interests in the Kellogg Co. of Great Britain. And he has an estate, out in California, near Pomona, where among other activities he breeds Arabian horses. Last week he was reported about to send an expedition to Arabia to bring back a herd of 9 to 15 horses, which he will attempt to reproduce in native strains. Through the administration of another Kellogg, Secretary of State Frank Billings Kellogg, he was arranging the safe-conduct...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Two Kelloggs | 1/18/1926 | See Source »

Handsome new editions, most of them beautifully illustrated, have been published of such classics as ALICE IN WONDERLAND-Boni, Liveright ($3); PINOCCHIO-Macmillan ($5.00); A CONNECTICUT YANKEE AT KING ARTHUR'S COURT-Harper ($2.50); THE PILOT-Minton, Balch ($2.50); THE ARABIAN NIGHTS- Dodd, Mead ($5); THE DEERSLAYER -Scribner's ($2.50); WHEN WE WERE VERY YOUNG-Dutton...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Barbadoes Gentleman | 12/14/1925 | See Source »

...University Glee Club will be represented by 60 members, led by R. P. MacFadden '26. The entire program follows: 1. Now is the Month of Maying Morley March of the Peers, from "Iolanthe" Sullivan Harvard Glee Club 2. My Heart at Thy Sweet Voice Saint-Sacus Abila Gruenwald Arabian Romance Polla Dartmouth Instrumental Club 3. Officer of the Day March Sacus Football Songs Harvard Dance Club 4. Men of Dartmouth Wellman Dartmouth Glee Club 5. Barbary Coast Orchestra of Dartmouth 6. Sylvia Speaker Goin to Shout Dartmouth Glee Club 7. Thousand and One Nights Waltz Strauss Harvard Mandolin Club Gold...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HARVARD AND DARTMOUTH WILL UNITE IN CONCERT | 10/23/1925 | See Source »

...extract maximum benefits from the shore-stops, it was planned to divide the tourist-students into small squads, each accompanied by the guide-instructors of his choice. In the ship's hold were to be 70 automobiles. One excursion scheduled was a 600-mile run from Bagdad through the Arabian desert...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Sea-Going College | 6/29/1925 | See Source »

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