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Died. Juan Altamarino, 115, citizen of Cuba, leaving 72 sons and daughters, 41 grandchildren, 33 great-grandchildren, 32 great-grand-grandchildren...
Died: Mine. Ben Nishimoto, 103, Kyushu Island, Japan. Her funeral was attended by 93 of her direct descendants; five children, 19 grandchildren, 57 great-grandchildren, 12 great-great-grandchildren...
...board--to drag them into a psychological test would only prove that he had not "the brains he was born with". Nor is the graduate better served. Experience, practice in practical affairs, greater maturity get him no more than a gentlemanly "satisfactory" when he competes with his children or grandchildren...
...encouraging to learn that the best inventive minds are going to solve the few remaining elements of the problem of how to get around without the use of legs. What our grandchildren are going to do with their legs we are not sure. Certainly they will be an encumbrance, and it will take more than two generations of evolution to dispense with them. Perhaps they will all cover them up and pretend they have none, as women used to do. --The Portland Oregonian...
...were no signs of a graduate committee and no signs of progress. Their feelings were well expressed in the centre page of the going out number of the Lampoon's 1914 Board, which depicted, the present chairman of the undergraduate committee pointing out the newly finished gymnasium to his grandchildren in 1975. The graduates, however, were only awaiting the approval of President Lowell before furthering a scheme in which many of them are deeply interested...