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...York Central (whose recent construction work has included not only prosaic tracks and embankments but also the gigantic New York Central Building in New York and the striking new Buffalo station...
...served as assistant dean of Harvard, President of the University of Maine, and President of the University of Michigan, uses his wide experience wisely in denouncing many of the antiguated traditions of college organization. The additional merits of eagerness and idealism, which lift this work from the ranks of prosaic scholarship to those of sincere, sound criticism, mark. "The Awakening College" as a pioneer in the field of future educational endeavor...
...engaged in printing and binding these gleanings. The creation of intellectual curiosity, and then of intellectual appreciation, in the minds of a few hundred pupils may be a greater thing than a rehashed Doctor's thesis, but it counts not as much. The great teacher may suffer from a prosaic style when he forsakes the classroom for the more material pen, but he publishes all the same; forced by this vicissitude of present convention...
...There is a story at Drake that when the ceiling was first completed and the lights turned on, Dr. Morehouse scanned the celestial charade, pointed to one bright speck among the thousands and exclaimed: "That star does not belong there. Take it out." But that, to scientists, is a prosaic anecdote when there are papers to be heard on such exotic subjects as "Respiration of Tomato Fruits," "Animal Ecology of Oaks," "Cytologic Changes Following Vasoligation of the Kidney of the Albino...
...Vernay-Faunthorpe expedition talks about his trip and shows you pictures of it. His record is a good travelog, wonderfully vivid compared to the lectures which, under the same title, have been delivered since time immemorial as a special treat in U. S. boarding schools on Saturday nights, but prosaic when measured against some of the animal scenes that have been artificially arranged in recent romances of wild countries. Some of Dyott's facts are interesting. Indians never kill ordinary elephants, regarding them as almost sacred because of their capacity for work. They kill only rogue elephants, lonely, vindictive bulls...