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Kermit Roosevelt and his brother Theodore Jr., returned recently from an expedition to the mountain fast-nesses of Asia, undertaken in the interests of the Field Museum of Chicago. The rare Ovis Poli was one of the baits that lured the expedition eastward, and the specimen that is to be presented to Harvard is the first one to make its appearance in New England...
...Mauna Loa's first eruption in five years. Comparatively little destruction attended it. Few, if any, lives were lost. The lava flowed chiefly south and west from three orifices, demolishing but one village, Hoopuloa (chief remaining centre of grass-skirt dancing), which it buried 50 feet deep. An eastward flow demolished four ranch houses...
...archaeological problems. The road from India to China led west of Tibet, since the country of Burma was difficult to travel. It passed through the ancient province of Gandhara, where it touched the western culture left haphazard by Alexander's armies and the traders who followed. It then bent eastward through what is now Chinese Turkestan, and finally, constricted by the Himalayan Mountains and the Gobi desert, debouched into what is now Kansu province...
...English system. Here, however, with a less diversified student body, and division into College. Common Freshman Year Sheffild Scientific School, and with our daily chapel and our prospering Yale Dining Hall, with an open-house fraternity system, et al, we have not yet reached the state turn here eyes eastward. Yale News, April...
...about ten years ago that an organization was founded in the name of the old secret society of reconstruction days, the Ku Klux Klan. It spread through the South and Southwest, burst across Mason and Dixon's line into Indiana, spread eastward to New England, made some progress in the Middle West and gained a few footholds in the Far West...