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...yesterday by the Observatory that a cable had been received from the Central Bureau of Astronomical Telegrams in Copenhagen stating that Professor Innes of Cape-town had informed them of the discovery on January 16, by Mr. Blathwayt, of a comet of the eleventh magnitude in the constellation of Hydra...
...traditions of an imperious past. The Boston murals all treat classic subjects: Chiron teaching a very delicate Achilles how to handle a bow; Atlas stooping among the golden girls of the Hesperides; Hercules, with a billet the size of a railroad tie in his fist, fencing with the Hydra's ducking heads...
...more the better: for it is certain if the student remains the single unmultiplied individual he is at present, he will never get his work done. The season puts a premium upon those freaks whom nature has endowed with duplicate organs and personalities. If one had the heads of Hydra, he would need them all. Theses are falling due like the plagues of Egypt, and the gods that send them are just as inexorable. Professors, struck with the thought of so much to be done in so little time, are suddenly moved by an overpowering liberality. Instead of paltry chapters...
...connection with some comments on Mr. Bernard Macfadden, world-renowned Physical Culturist and quack-exposer, published in a recent issue of TIME, you refer to the public as a "hydra-headed Amphibian" and as "that Beast." Will you allow me to observe th?t the use of such terms is in extremely bad taste and that the author of them deserves severe criticism...
Millionaire Bernarr Macfadden, publisher of twelve magazines? and of the New York Evening Graphic, gum-chewers' supreme-de-fruit, watches as a zoo-man watches his charges that hydra-headed amphibian, the Public. He knows the meat upon which this beast and upon which he, Macfadden, may grow great together. Hence, when he saw people everywhere, in lowly hovels, in the great homes which he himself frequents, racking their brains over small squares of paper charted in black and white squares which gaped to be filled in, horizontally and vertically, with words of Egyptian, European and native derivation...