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...Parthian shaft in more ways than one, Grey Granite closes the romantic story of Chris Colquohoun (pronounced "Gaboon") in a manner that may take its readers somewhat aback. After surviving the two husbands of the earlier books, Chris has gone with her grown-up son Ewan to the industrial town of Duncairn. There she spends her days in drudgery as partner in a boarding house, while Ewan starts work at an iron foundry. Written in the same earthy dialect as its predecessors, Grey Granite is peopled with no less salty characters, but the sign of the restless times lies heavier...
...Coast skulls he has studied are grouped as West Cameroons, Cameroons and Gaboon. The eastern Congo or Mountain skulls are grouped as Kiva and Eastern Mountain gorillas...
...this one by Mr. Coolidge to reduce the classification to one single species of two subspecies. The first specimen in any museum in the world was that in the Boston Society of Natural History and now in the Agassiz Museum. It was discovered by Savage, a missionary in the Gaboon, and sent in 1847 to Dr. Geoffries Wyman, then Professor in the Harvard Medical School...
Besides the magazines mentioned above, the convention includes representatives from the following publications: The Brown University Brown Jug, the Cornell Widow, the Pennsylvania Punch Bowl, the Princeton Tiger; the Hamilton College Royal Gaboon, the Pitt Panther, the Lehigh Burr, the Columbia Jester, the Rutgers Chanticleer, the Johns Hopkins Black and Blue Jay, the Carnegie Tech Puppet, the New York University Medley, the Boston University Bean Pot, the Williams Purple Cow, the Middlebury Baboon, the Amherst Lord Jeff, the Wesleyan Wasp, the Lafayette Liar and the Stevens Stone Mill...
...comics which will send delegates to Harvard next months are the Black and Blue Jay from Johns Hopkins, the Brown Jug, the Chanticleer from Rutgers, the Columbia Jester, the Lehigh Burr, the Penn Punch Bowl, the Pitt Panther, from the University of Pittsburgh, the Carnegie Tech Puppet, the Royal Gaboon of Carnegie Tech, and the Yale Record...