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Soon the reading of the roll of classes, an affecting ceremony to be sure, but rather pompous and tiresome methought. On to the Meeting House, in great procession, at the head of it all and followed by a fine band of music. Lord, how we did marvel to see the church so crowded, the galleries filled with the beauteous ladies of the Commonwealth. Came then events of no great importance until the rendering of a fine ode by a gentleman from Charleston, South Carolina. The first line was, "Fair Harvard, thy sons to thy jubilee throng," but the remainder...
...evening to see more gaiety with Mr. Pickett, the merchant, and his lively daughter, Rose. The college buildings lighted to proclaim the occasion and Cambridge filled with visitors. A marvel it was to see the throng a happy yet well-mannered. Austin, Jr., along again, and back with him to Hollis before the curfew telled at ten. Soon into bed, tired from merry-making, to dream dreams of purlian ancestors founding a "schoale or college...
...entrance to the Alabama State Fair Grounds outside Birmingham last week WPA workmen raised timber scaffolding around the largest cast-iron statue in the world. An intricate block & tackle was set up and, to the banging of hammers & chisels the head of Birmingham's "Iron Man," marvel of the St. Louis Exposition of 1904, was pulled off and lowered to the ground. After 30 years of neglect Birmingham's Vulcan was about to be moved to the top of the same Red Mountain from which much of the ore he is made...
...Coughlin-Lemke-O'Brien platform was a marvel of inclusive appeal to every crackpot and malcontent in the land. Briefly, it proposed to create a common-man's Utopia by legislative fiat. For Lemke-Coughlin inflationists there was to be a government central bank, with complete control of money and credit, which would issue new currency to retire all Government bonds, refinance all farm and home mortgages. For Townsendites, there was "assurance of reasonable and decent security for the aged." For Share-the-Wealthers, there was limitation of individual incomes and inheritances. For the benefit of anyone...
Some 100 miles southeast of Sandy Hook one day last fortnight the master of the Oceanographer and his officers gathered in the chartroom, as wide-eyed as though they were actually witnessing an undersea marvel. This U. S. Coast & Geodetic Survey ship is equipped with the latest type of echo-recorder, a device which automatically measures the depth of water by the time required for a sound to travel to the bottom and bounce back. The depth appears continuously on a dial and the profile of the sea floor is translated to a chart. Scrawled before the Oceanographer...