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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Montana, near the border of Nevada, is the Mohave Desert, including the Valley of Death, which lies 150 feet below sea level. Here are found giant cacti, below which innumerable rattlesnakes and lizards crawl in the alkali dust...
...already be seen. The games played during the week resulted as follows: Yale, 4, Tufts, 0; Yale, 0, Amherst, 1; Yale, 3, New York National League, 10. In these games, the university team played well at times, but lack of practice was apparent. Some new pitching material has been found in the freshman class, and as all but one of last year's pitchers are back again that department is exceptionally bright...
...have left myself no time to dwell upon the literary side of Professor Shaler's life, but have found an especial interest in one or two of his books. One of his most agreeable works is certainly that on "Domesticated Animals." It is full of personal observation and I know of no book 'more sure to enlarge the mind of a thoughtful boy or girl. A later book, to be greatly prized, is one whose rather inadequate title is "The Neighbor", and whose chapter. "The Problem of the African", while liable to some criticism in detail--as is almost everything...
This was not, however, what struck me most in the occurrence. Seeking an opportunity to thank Professor Shaler afterwards, I found that he was out of town and when we met, after a week or two, it appeared that the whole affair had passed very much out of his mind, he saying frankly that he did so much of that sort of thing that he might easily have confused it with other events. He said that it was rather his habit, after public days in Boston, to take a look in at the Cambridge police-court next...
...almost unknown. The source of Dean Shaler's power of thus winning and holding men lay, I have always felt, in his bluff, great-hearted manliness, his humor, and his sympathy. He loved men and was in turn beloved. Like other men remarkably fertile in plans and suggestions, he found his judgments and conclusions often questioned--no man has been oftener disagreed with; but however much one might differ with him in opinion, one found that the bond of affection grew steadily stronger. No subject that involved the sons of men or their concerns was foreign to his interest...