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Unless you already find anthropology interesting, the courses at Harvard are unlikely to sell you on the subject. Most of the professors are good though not often brilliant in their fields, and few lecture well. Boyd Irven DeVore, William W. Howel and one or two others are both good and entertaining teachers, but most are both dry and cautious...
Instead of a scenic lake, Oregonians feared that they might have a scenic volcano on their hands. Said Professor Howel Williams, leading volcanologist : "Renewed activity is not out of the question." Crater Lake was formed some 10,000 years ago, when 12,000-ft. Mt. Mazama blew its top. The eruption covered 5,000-odd square miles of Oregon with pumice six inches deep. Incandescent avalanches fried the Klamath Plateau for 25 miles around the vent. Seventeen cubic miles of rock were blasted to smithereens...
...slain by crawling Andred without Mark's command, so that the world is emptied for everyone, bringing the tragic peace that Isolt the darker had predicted ? enough is told to trouble the reader greatly though the sense sometimes becomes so rarefied that one welcomes the voice of King Howel, kind father of Isolt the whiter, saying: "You are not going on always with a ghost for company until...
...Mumford, Christ's College; Cambridge, entomology at California; Keith A. H. Murray, Edinburgh, agriculture at Cornell; George S. Pryde. St. Andrews, history at Yale; Clifford B. Purves, St. Andrews, chemistry at Johns Hopkins; Richard A. Robb, Glasgow, statistics at Chicaco; William Rule, University of Durham, physics at Cornell; Howel Williams, Liverpool University and Imperial College of Science, London, geology at California; Normal C. Wright Christ College, Oxford and Callus, Cambridge, agriculture at Cornell...
...February number of Harper's Magazine is just out, and contains the first numbers of Mr. Howells' new story, "April Hopes"; this instalment is entirely devoted to Class Day at Harvard. It is a clever description enough, though one would judge that Mr. Howel's has not seen a class day for the last seven years, on account of certain little inaccuracies which are noticeable to the initiated...
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