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...city of Canton. These books have been rotting because of the ravages of white ants, and those of worms. Some of the leaves are filled with the tiny holes made by the destroyers. The one of the books in the worst condition has about half of its cover eaten away, while the remainder is perforated with the holes left by the little beasts. The pages and sheets of the volume are in equally bad condition, being almost half destroyed in some cases. One of the interesting insertions in the consignment book is labeled: "Invoice of champagne elder shipped on steamer...
...cannot ignore a correspondence that I had with him in the summer of 1898. At my summer home in the woods of Plymouth, Massachusetts, I got a letter from Mr. E. B. Barton, a young graduate, whose diploma, testifying that he had received the degree of A.B., had been eaten by rats in Wadsworth House. He petitioned for another diploma in its place. As I knew that the President's objection to duplicating a diploma was almost Draconian in its rigidity, I had scarcely a shred of hope for Mr. Barton; but I did write to Mr. Eliot, then...
Three years ago George Richards Minot and William Parry Murphy, Harvard medical men, discovered that liver eaten regularly and in great quantities overcame pernicious anemia. Later their colleague Edwin Joseph Cohn developed an extract to replace bulk liver. To Eli Lilly & Co., Indianapolis manufacturing druggists, the Harvard men gave the commercial monopoly because methods of manufacture were too delicate for novices to handle. Last year other pharmaceutical houses, in the U. S. and abroad, studied the preparations under Harvard instruction. So last week the Harvard Committee on pernicious anemia announced that good liver extracts were available almost everywhere, but that...
...hallway, she twice shouted: "I am ruined!" She married this man. She blamed the failure of the union, and her husband's death, not on her own connubial shortcomings but on Masons, tobacco and liquor (the Doctor was, significantly, seldom sober). When her daughter's cheek was eaten away with a sore, Carry accused the child of impiety...
This week will mark the close of the active duties of the Freshmen Advisers. For the last six days, these men have eaten at the Freshmen dining-halls in order to aid the Freshmen in selecting courses, making contacts, and in acquainting them with the University in general...