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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...generation of students, as well as to assemble, as far as human fallibility permits, books of permanent literary value. There are few small libraries that can offer a better representation of every form of contemporary literary activity. It is a pity that the Union Library is not more widely known and used. L. Denis Peterkin...
...Leonids appeared last November, and if more are seen this week, predictions may be made about the coming great show. The entire civilized world is requested in a notice received from the Harvard Observatory to assist in searching for hitherto unknown records of past Leonid showers. Dr. Fisher, known as Harvard's "meteor fisherman", believes that a great many references to the Leonids exist which have not been found. He has already received notice of a chronicle in Syria, made in Damascus in the twelfth century, and containing astronomical observations as far back as the sixth century. Information has also...
...priced rather hesitantly, especially when the epithet is applied to no refined an object as the opera, but the work of the Cosmopolitan Opera Company, at the Arlington for two weeks, leaves absolutely no basis for this fear. A small theater and stage, simple settings, singers not yet widely known--these might be handicaps for such an organization; instead they are transformed into positive aids. The grandiose atmosphere that surrounds the Chicago Company's midwinter performances is lacking; in its place is an enthusiastic group of singers and a fully appreciative audience...
...Known to the western world chiefly through Rudyard Kipling's story "Rikki-Tikki-Tavi," Herpestes griseus (or mungo) is a dingy grey-brown rodent about 30 inches long including a pointed tail. When excited, its long stiff hairs stand erect. This bristling hair, together with thick skin, is one of the mongoose's protections against the fangs of serpents. Contrary to hearsay, the mongoose is not immune to snakebite except by dint of its intuitive agility. With uncanny timing it dodges thrust after thrust of the serpent, gradually exhausts its enemy, then darts in, bites the nape...
Born to Be's illustrator, young Mexican Miguel de Covarrubias, chiefly known in the U. S. for his drawings in Vanity Fair, monthly smartchart, provides splendiferous and glaring drawings, appropriate to the vibrant story, exhibiting his amazing knack for racial characteristics...