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...turning up at backwoods settlements, bearded, his pockets bulging, his underclothes gone. The latter he had used up for gun wads. His pockets contained bird skins, sheafs of notes, manuscript. He was the naturalist, John James Audubon, whose grandmanner personality made credentials unnecessary. He had a family down in Kentucky which he supported as best he could in the years when, at one with the wilderness as few men were before or after him, he was "unknown" in the U. S. He took his magnificent work to Edinburgh and was made a member of the Royal Academy. He executed...
Scientifically Audubon is out of date now. As an observer of contemporary customs nd scenery he is ageless. No Californian will read his description of an earthquake on the Kentucky barrens without a shudder of recognition. No rifleman but will be excited by his careful account of how Kentuckians, for practice, drove nails and snuffed candles with their bullets; how Daniel Boone "barked" squirrels, hitting the limb under their chins to stun, not mash them. Florida land-boomers may read how Mr. Audubon struggled through primeval subdivisions in a hurricane. The odd naturalist, "Monsieur de T.," slaying bats...
...Holleran, J. H. '27 22 Right Tackle Roslindale, Mass. 35 Lane, M. J. '28 23 Left Halfback Melrose, Mass. 26 MacPhail, R. B. '28 22 Right Halfback Arlington, Mass. 32 Phillips, J. '28 21 Left Guard Upper Montclair, N.J. 9 Picken, J. E., Jr. '27 22 Left End Audubon, N.J. 16 Rubin, H. '27 22 Right Guard Brooklyn...
...while he was studying at Iowa State College that William Hornaday, a vigorous, tar-haired Hoosier, came upon the works of Naturalist John J. Audubon and determined thenceforth to devote himself, not to natural history in a scientist's closet, but to discovering and teaching popularly the wonders of the animal kingdom. He studied zoology and the keeping of museums in Europe. He obtained a post as taxidermist at the U. S. National Museum in Washington. In 1886 it suddenly drawned on him that the buffalo-hide hunters had nearly completed their task of exterminating the once-thunderous bison herds...
Tulane University was founded in 1834. For a long time it was the only important school of the South. In 1886 came Newcomb Memorial College for Girls; in 1911 Catholic Loyola University. These schools lie on pleasant adjacent campuses on the city's outskirts, opposite splendid Audubon Park, which in turn stretches between St. Charles Street and the Mississippi...