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...present paved streets in Tokyo are as rare as pearls in Cape Cod oysters. Sidewalks are non-existent outside of a small business district. The street car system is antiquated, and there is no sanitary sewage system. In rainy weather the mud in the streets is so deep that people are obliged to go about their business in rubber boots...
...When you return here, I am apt to think that you will find something better to do than to run to Mr. Osborne's at Gray's Inn to pick up scarce books. Buy cod books, and read them; the best bocks are the commonest, and the last editions are always the best, if the editors are not blockheads; for they may profit by the former. But take care not to understand editions and title-pages too well. It always smells of pedantry and not always of learning. What curious books I have, they are indeed but few they shall...
...October sunshine with an afternoon of December show ending in a February thaw, the daily Infirmary list approaches a ward notice of registered voters. According to statistics the weeks ahead are the lowest on the curve of average health, and the gentleman in the street-cars dragging the huge cod-fish over his back does a thriving business...
...competition was a problem in landscape design. The competitors were furnished with a topographic map representing a location in Sandwich, Mass., on Cape Cod, and were asked to design a tea-house lay-out, with tea-terrace, garden in the New England Colonial manner, boat landing, and other arrangements calculated for the pleasure and accommodation of patrons...
...competition consists in the design of a summer tea-room grounds with a New England Colonial garden, supposed to be situated on Cape Cod. This is the twelfth competition for the trophy, which was presented by an unknown donor in 1912. It is open to all students in the School of Landscape Architecture, but members of courses 2b and 3b in Landscape Architecture are required to enter drawings. The jury and date of award will be announced later. These competitions serve to give the students of Landscape Architecture opportunity to put their knowledge to a practical application...