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...have swept south to Nova Scotia. Cape Cod, Long Island, northern Pennsylvania, and the Ohio valley; and recent studies, especially by Antevs, indicate that the front of this sheet began to rot approximately 25,000 years ago. As a natural outgrowth of this everyday conception, we are inclined to infer that all the region south of the entire Labrador Peninsula was similarly crossed and denuded by the last or Wisconsin ice-sheet...
Further in your article you infer that I was not present at the Court of Inquiry, at the Brooklyn Navy Yard in 1924. The truth is the Navy Department asked me if I would be a voluntary witness and I proceeded to New York from Washington and was the only witness called. This is a matter of record with the press and all evidence can be found in the Judge Advocate General's office at Washington...
...various institutions of learning at Commencement time this year. Among them is the name of Lou Henry Hoover who received a degree from Swarthmore. You have failed to state that the same institution, at the same time, conferred a degree on Marion Edwards Park! President of Bryn Mawr. I infer that it is not accounted "lese majeste" to mention the President of Bryn Mawr College in the same class with the wife of the President of the United States...
This item smacks of yellow journalism as one who did not read it carefully would infer that a four-year-old child had died in convulsions from eating chocolates. Careful reading of the article shows however that it was not in any sense candy but laxative pills that caused the convulsions...
...degree. Among this first crop of tutors was the man after whom Downing Street, London, was named. George Downing had all his education in Harvard College; and as we find him, when representing Cromwell in France, carrying on a two-hour conversation in Latin with Cardinal Mazarin, we may infer that Dunster's College law of 1642, forbidding the use of the "mother tongue" even in conversation, was fairly well observed...