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...quite proper that football should be taken seriously. In the past it was often considered a sport, and it was played for fun in a slapdash unprofessional manner by young men who enjoyed the exercise. This race of dilettantes is now extinct, and has given place to a more conscientious generation which realizes the true function of football in any well-conducted alma mater. For alma mater flourishes by victory on the gridiron, and droops after defeat. No alma mater can withstand prolonged unsuccess at football. The reverberations of humiliation in the Stadium or the Bowl are far-reaching. Attendance...
...three searches, they had not found the "plains and meadows" of sargassum weed commonly reported as forming the Sargasso Sea (TIME, July 20) east of the West Indies. Small, shallow patches of the weed were encountered, and these teemed with marine life. "The Humboldt "Current is gone . . . is extinct.''* Nowhere had they encountered the sweep of icy water that flows up along the west coast of South America from the Antarctic. Volcanic disturbances, earthquakes, were blamed for some vast change in Pacific bathygraphy...
...Wellington, N. Z., Prof. A. C. Gifford of the Hector Observatory is something of a cat. The lunar mice, he suggested last week, are meteors. Others have believed that the multitude of craters on the moon's surface are the chilly orifices of extinct volcanoes, mementoes of the aeons just after the moon, a molten fragment, was flung off from the earth's mass, arrested in the heavens by the pull of terrestrial gravity and started in its perpetual monthly swing. Prof. Gifford's contention is that, since the moon has no appreciable enveloping atmosphere, a meteor...
...must be two sides to a debate-but to lay the facts which Science has discovered before the public, that the layman might judge for himself. The man who was called was Richard Swann Lull, alma matered by Rutgers College,* and now Professor of Vertebrate Paleontology (the science of extinct vertebrate organisms) at Yale University, one of the leaders in his field, Director of the great Peabody Museum to be opened in New Haven within a few days. He, a believer that "Man . . .like other forms of life, is not the result of instantaneous creation, but of an orderly...
Lord Curzon married first Mary Leiter, daughter of Levi Z. Leiter of Washington, D.C.; a widower, he married Grace Hinds, daughter of the late ]. Monroe Hinds, onetime U. S. Minister to Brazil, widow of Alfred Duggan of Buenos Aires. The marquisate and earldom now become extinct. Richard Nathaniel Curzon, nephew, succeeds by "special remainder" to the Viscounty of Scarsdale. Lady Mary Irene Curzon, eldest daughter, and granddaughter of Levi Z. Leiter, becomes, also by special remainder, Baroness of Ravensdale in her own right...