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Homespun Doggerel. When his friend and predecessor as editor of the Post-Intelligencer sports page, Portus Baxter, retired back in 1920, Brougham made a point of visiting him regularly. He boosted Baxter's spirits by persuading the paper to pay him a small amount as a consultant. Baxter never forgot the favor. When he died 42 years later, he left Brougham a $300,000 estate that no one knew existed...
...available craft. The sun was setting in a fresh westerly breeze as the boats, hung with bunting, sailed out between the piers. On the leading boat stood the statue of the Virgin, one foot holding down the head of a sea serpent, above the inscription: "Tu es Virgo Maria, portus sahitis, marls stella" (Thou art the Virgin Mary, haven of safety, star of the sea). Catholic fishermen sailed their craft daringly, crashing the gunwales under the foam to prove to the leftist onlookers that with the Madonna in the leading boat nothing could happen to them...
...combination of the state university that is founds particularly in the western United States, and of the private endowed university of the eastern states is the form of organization of the educational institutions of Australia, Professor Portus indicated, and added, "Each of the six provinces of Australia has a university partially supported by the Government, and partially endowed, with the control of the university vested entirely in the hands of a governing board composed of Alumni, ther faculty, and of the Government...
...such American institutions as Harvard and Yale. Medicine is one of the most widely studied subjects in the graduate work, although law and engineering receive wide attention. A tendency towards specialization and toward the taking of more practical subjects is also seen at the University of Sydney, Professor. Portus pointed out. This inclination, which is found in many English-speaking countries, in Australia is partly the result of the fact that the Government has appropriated funds for the creation of a number of professorships in applied subjects...
Contrasting the English and Australian methods of study, Professor Portus declared that honors men prepared at Oxford are probably more capable than those who studied in Australia, while students are better prepared by class work at the colonial universities