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Harvard's outlook is national. The cosmopolitan easterner little realizes how widely the dinner coat is unfamiliarized. A dozen years ago I hunted out an old dress suit for a party, and with a simple cloth mask passed totally unrecognized among a small group of western neighbors to whom I was as well known as the local postmaster...
...Capt. Robert Abram Bartlett, leader of the Northeast Greenland Expedition, has two tame musk ox mascots which he captured in Greenland. Under its shaggy coat, the musk ox has a close covering of woolly fleece which experiments (at the University of Leeds, England) have shown to be excellent for cloth. It dyes and bleaches well, is as soft as cashmere, does not shrink. The meat of the musk ox cannot be distinguished from beef, nor the milk from cow's milk. Neither meat nor milk taste of the strong musk odor which is characteristic of the animal...
Among the documents pertinent to the beginnings of Harvard which are on display, that of most immediate interest is probably the Charter. Protected from the bright glare of modern electric lamps by a heavy cloth, the precious parchment reposes safely beneath locked show cases. But by simply folding back this covering the curious may inspect as they will this aged treasure of the College as it lies in its gilt frame behind crimson curtains. It is the original charter of 1650 granted by the General Court of the Colony and signed by the Governor, Thomas Dudley. "The Christian Warfare against...
...Veils was lascivious, her entreaties to Herod for the prophet's head brutal and wanton. At the cistern during Jochanaan's execution (unlike Mary Garden in the same role) she was all animal thirsting for blood, listening for death struggle sounds that did not come. When she raised the cloth on the silver platter to kiss the dead lips listeners sat in amazement at the incompatible hate and golden singing. When the curtain swung down on her violent death it was a long moment before a hand was lifted in applause. Then began an ovation lasting a quarter...
...Jersey will lend Spain $100,000,000 at no interest in return for the oil monopoly. Last week Spain "gave assurance" that it has been made no such offer, and Standard's Walter Clark Teagle, in London, said the story was "made out of whole cloth...