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...interested to learn that the potoroo is considered a rarity. Last September I had occasion to avail myself of the privilege of making my headquarters at the Prickly Pear Field Station at Cogango, Queensland. There I was informed that the potoroo was considered a pest, since it was reputed to have a fondness for potato tubers. Rat-kangaroos were nightly visitors to the Station grounds. By ground thumping they betrayed their presence. I saw one at its thumping leap upward four or five feet...
Julie tries to reconcile respect for her husband with her love for Alison, but without avail. Soon von Norwitz suspects her affair: once convinced that she has been unfaithful, he resigns his will to live. On his deathbed he consigns the lovers to each other. But the van Leydens have no such liberal ideas. Scandalized, outraged when they discover Julie's behavior, their confusion is twice confounded when she runs off to marry Alison. He has rubbed the lamp of his philosophy and like a lovely genie she must answer its peremptory call...
...consider what is to be, for that must come, but what has been. This is the last week and how should it be spent. There are the Divisionals to remember, but surely that is a dull thought. If four years will not prepare you adequately, what will one week avail? And anyway, there are the long afternoons and the longer evenings in which to bind together the slender sheaves of thought and memory. The Vagabond has devised another way to pass the mornings for his seniors. In his good years here he has formed many friendships with the Professors. They...
...Putnam '20, Consultant on Careers, was picked up by frenzied Cambridge Police during the height of the riot, but was soon identified by Major Charles R. Apted '06, and subsequently released. The methods used by the police in their efforts to quell the disturbance were of little avail. Their use of tear gas and clubs merely made the students more determined to continue the riot and seek revenge on the police...
...grew steadily larger, centering in Harvard Square. The crowd did not become really excited, however, until police began throwing tear bombs into their midst. Major Apted joined with the police in their efforts to disperse the huge crowd, crying "Break it up, boys, break it up!" but to no avail. During the course of the riot the night gate of the University Theatre was removed and burned in the middle of the street, along with several placards of that theatre. Trolley cars were disabled in the middle of the square and huge busses were rocked from side to side. Traffic...