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...whom Darwin called "a savant who thinks like a philosopher and writes like a poet." Fabre died in 1915 at the age of 92, but posthumous works are still coming out, enhancing the fame and affection which the world began to accord him only toward the end of his hardship-ridden life. The Life of the Scorpion is typical both of his method as a naturalist and of the charm of his style-a style which fascinates many a reader to whom a technical book on entomology would be anathema. The other insects that he studied include the spider...
Conditions in Biology I now are hard both upon students and upon Professo Parker. The hardship which the Biology-bent student may have to undergo are sufficiently pointed out by him. What he himself is undergoing, although unmentioned, is quite apparent. In large measure it has been due to Professor Parker's efforts that the interest and value of the Biology department have been growing so rapidly. To have that interest arbitrarilly restricted is naturally discouraging to the preson largely responsible for its creation...
...setting aside of half of the allowed immigration for relatives of persons already here will favor those families who wish to make America their permanent home and decrease the hardship to those immigrants who under the present law find it difficult to have their families join them...
This taboo, like all others, at times works hardship on the public. It arouses curiosity without allaying it. For example, it was recently news that Philadelphia baseball fans would present Cy Williams with a "new motor car " for his ability as a home-run hitter. Affection it was, pure and simple. Everyone likes to read about affection and, having found it, wants to know how much. Did Philadelphia fans love Cy Williams like a Rolls-Royce or Ford? But for a civil answer the journals said: " A motor...
...press regarded the ruling with favor because hardship was removed from the immigrants. However, the condition of transatlantic shipping is not such as to make steamship lines inclined to pay large fines without passing on the hardship, in one form or another, to the passengers for whom it is incurred. A law which teaches ships to race for the first of the month, and then assesses fines of $100,000 or more for an error of 15 seconds in navigation, will doubtless react to the hardship of immigrants, no matter how administered...