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Across the bay from Ballycastle lies Aran Island. Too barren and sunless to tempt invaders, it went untouched, and almost unknowing, while the rest of Ireland gave up its lands and its memories. But the fishermen on Aran still remembered Cuchulain and the Red Branch, and the language of the Erse; their infrequent English, with its archaic vocabulary sounds like a foreign tongue. For them was reserved a later invasion and a stranger. A young man who had found the music schools of Germany and the cafes of Paris not at all to his liking was rowed out from...
Forlornly braying, the mule lives a life of toil, barren of love. For like many hybrids, the mule is sterile. So skeptical of the few reported cases of mule fertility is Encyclopaedia Britannica that it refuses to consider them authentic. But last week from Natal, South Africa, issued a report that appeared to have the stamp of authority. In a letter to Nature (British weekly), Ernest Warren of the Natal Museum reported the following "indisputable example of fertility in the mule...
...remuneration from a wealthy upper stratum those who suggest panaceas for stricken budgets should consider that a university ought primarily to maintain its scholastic standard. The proposal of the Graduate's Magazine, if adopted, would injure the University's reputation and attract a group sure to be stagnant and barren of any real worth other than financial...
Everyone is familiar with the exterior of Eliot House, the result of the site which was offered for the bewilderment of the architects. Barren of foliage, and with a blank expanse of wall at one end, the court sorely needs the concealing grace of tree and vine. The interior is fortunately a distinct improvement. Most of the rooms are comfortable and large enough; the Common Rooms (there are two) are small but dignified. The Dining Room is too large and elaborate for daily use. It is graced by the Sargent portrait of Eliot, and by the Agassiz Inter-House Crew...
...desert and its lore, the author's thoughts, like his camels, found food scanty in the sands. Written in a style reminiscent of Charles M. Doughty's masterpiece. Tourist Thomas' magnificently produced book (compared with Travels in Arabia Desertary} seems the record of a somewhat barren scientific tour de force...