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...regrettable that with the passing of the tradition of snap courses there has occurred a significant decrease in the number of practical geologists in the University. This limitation of enrollment in the ranks of anti-Bryanic scientists is scarcely to be attributed to a lack of facilities. Though overcrowded with visitors to the glass flowers, the University Museum nevertheless affords an ample home for miniature volcanoes and the dry bones of once terrifying beasts. The multiplicity of levels in the subway offers a unique opportunity for a detailed study of the earth's crust; and any intensive study...
Whatever the reason for the lamentable lack of undergraduate geologists, it has prevented a thorough investigation of the geological problems of the University. An indication of what might be accomplished is given by the recent report on the terranean strata of Harvard Hall. Ground into the original wooden floor, which is occasionally exposed at the surface, there is a hard crystaline composition which defies analysis. This stratum the investigator likens to the Pre-Cambrian, and assumes to be of great antiquity. Upon this base are laid numerous formations which at recurring intervals indicate an accumulation of debris from the most...
...Education is a great thing in its way, but just look at Mayor Curley and see what he has accomplished in spite of his lack of education. And he's a grand orator...
...exact atmosphere in which they moved is obvious everywhere in the book. It is an atmosphere unconsciously summed up by Sir Harry's explanation of his dislike for the Boers: "Their policy toward the natives was far more despotic and wilfully stupid than ours had ever been; their lack of interest in native languages, in intelligent natural history, exceeded ours." Sir Harry's is a taciturn account of that combination of exploitation, good government and scientific inquiry which solemnly carried the British flag around the world...
...Harvard puck-chasers showed a lack of coordination in front of the enemy's goal, whereas three of the four Green scores came as the result of skilful passing. The latter's first goal, however, which came early in the second period with the score 3-0 in favor of the Cambridge team, was a slow, gliding shot by Douplin. Twenty seconds later the second Hanoverian goal got by Flood...