Word: knowns
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Herbert K. Job_'88 will give an illustrated lecture on "Hunting Game Birds with a Camera" under the auspices of the Natural History Society at 8 o'clock this evening, in the Lecture Room of the Fogg Art Museum. Mr. Job is well known for his excellent photographs of birds, and is the author of "Among the Waterfowl", "Wildwings", and several other books...
...From 1894 to 1898 he was editor-in-chief of Harper's Weekly. Since 1902 he has been professor of political science at Williams College, and is a member of the Civil Service Reform League, the American Institute of Arts and Letters, and several other similar organizations. The best known of his books on economic questions are "Our Unjust Tariff Law" and "The Money We Need...
...more game will be played at Richmond after today, but it is not known with whom, as the Washington and Lee game scheduled for Wednesday has been cancelled. Daily practice will be held on the Richmond Club grounds until Friday, when the squad will leave for Annapolis, arriving there the same evening. The following day the team will play the Annapolis Naval Academy on the Annapolis diamond, and will leave for New York that night, returning to Cambridge on Sunday...
...principal object of the expedition is to examine well-known myocene deposits on the York River and to secure for the Department of Geology a collection of the marine fossils peculiar to this section. The party will go by train to Baltimore and thence by boat to York-town, returning by way of the Great Dismal Swamp of North Carolina and Virginia, the Richmond Coal Basin and Washington...
...this does not mean so much that the legion of young men were deeply interested in the science of the earth as that they were attracted by the man who told them about it. His extraordinary individuality was felt there as it was everywhere else. Most professors are known chiefly through the subject that they study and teach: strip them of that and, like kings without their robes, they look just like plain men; but with Shaler it was his subject that was known through him; leave off his geology and he was still a marked man, a striking figure...