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...Professor Wyman has established a museum of comparative anatomy; and Professor Agassiz has also a museum, of which the fish collection is superior to that of the British Museum or the Jardin des Plantes, owing to the immense labors of the professor in Brazil. Asa Gray is the Professor of Botany, and, as all botanists know, is the Hooker of the United States. The students of Harvard are singularly fortunate in being able to study zoology, anatomy, and botany under these distinguished gentlemen, who are also skillful and elequent teachers of their respective silences. It may interest some...
...Marble Savings Bank's secret could not keep forever. Finally State's Attorney Asa Bloomer of Rutland heard of it. Last June he broke the case wide open by ordering the arrest of former Bookkeeper Cocklin for grand larceny making public the details of the fraud for the first time. He began to intimate that Governor Smith was guilty of at least poor judgment when he failed to hand Bookkeeper Cocklin over to authorities immediately after the fraud was discovered. Vermonters began to wonder if their Governor was not guilty of another error when he failed to raise...
...reproduction of President Eliot's voice, taken from the speech in praise of Asa Grey, is remarkable because it was made in the very earliest days of Movie-tone, and is not as clear as it might...
...recording of President Eliot's speech in praise of Dr. Asa Grey is one of those things like a woman's being clever or a dog's standing on its hind legs: it isn't done well, but you're surprised and gratified to see it done at all. And then the glimpses of Harvard scenery, in the Tercentenary film itself and also in a short tribute by Pathe, are a revelation and a delight. Some of the vistas are so artistic that you won't be able to recognize them, and they all go to show what a frame...
...DeForest, distinguished inventor, luckily took a record of President Eliot's speech given in praise of Dr. Asa Grey when a bust of the latter was unveiled in N.Y.U.'s Hall of Fame. This is one of the earliest talkie pictures ever made...