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...finest terminals of the railroad system--the port of Boston, which is broad, "deep chested", protected, and well furnished with excellent docking facilities; and what is still more in its favor from the point of view of the steamship companies, it is some three hundred miles, one day, nearer Europe than is New York, the nearest of the other ports. The steamship companies are glad to dock at Boston and would do so if it were not for the fact that they find no goods on the Boston wharves waiting for export. No ship can be expected to bring cargoes...
...cuts out entirely the Corporation, the Board of Overseers, the Old Players and the Class of '79 and doesn't allow them to see the game at all. And if it cuts them in half, the Senior for whom the CRIMSON is pleading won't sit one section nearer the playing field, and the graduate will be moved but two rows up or down, in the wooden stands whichever way the drawing happens to fall. All I can say, I wish we had more organizations as efficient and as conscientious as that run by our Graduate Treasurer...
...will of the gods, they found a commander. All this is true, and these are but examples. Equally true is it that others apparently "men of the hour" with splendid schemes conceived, have through lack of some essential quality, failed of success; Kerensky, for instance, to come no nearer our own shores. But to her sorrow Italy has for the last decade, not been gladdened by even a glorious failure. She can boast of many men of talent but, if we except d'Annunzio's captivating but obstructive insanity, none of genius...
...found anywhere. Secondly with the possible exception of the Hudson Straits region, some six hundred miles north of Cartwright, Labrador has no wandering tribes of Eskimos. Labrador Eskimos live in scattered villages along the coast, of which only some very small ones, few and far-between, are found nearer than a hundred and fifty miles to the North. In the third place, with the possible exception of this Northern Straits tribe, Eskimos do not live in the interior of Labrador, the purported home of the wild Fish Fang tribe; but stick close along the shore. In the fourth place...
...about 60,000,000,000,000 miles, or so far away that the light from it consumed ten years in reaching the earth. This happened in 1840. Since that time hundreds of stars have had their distance measured similarly, but less than a dozen are known to be nearer than 61 Oygni. The nearest is Alpha Centauri, a star in the southern skies, a little over four "light years" distant. The number of stars whose direct parallax can be measured is very limited...