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...that ventilating systems sometimes do everything but ventilate. With all the clever conceits of modern architecture one might reasonably suppose that a pure environment could be provided for those whose lot it is to spend hours over sometimes arid pages. If surroundings influence character, Harvard's contribution to the realm of thought threatens to be amazingly dank...
...General Chamorro. The Nicaraguan Administrations upheld by the U. S. have apparently been obnoxious to a majority of Nicaraguans, but in upholding one more such regime Secretary Kellogg is only following scrupulously a well established U. S. tradition. The incidental question of abstract "right" faded years ago from the realm of practical consideration. Large on the practical horizon looms the fact that the U. S. has secured for Nicaragua a series of administrations which if they were not wanted were marked by a relative peace in which Nicaraguans were at liberty to pursue commercial activities in an orderly and prosperous...
Turning from the realm of the purely poetical to that of the scientific, a student vagabond might well find much of interest in a lecture on the influence of river-borne mineral matter upon the oceans and oceanic life given by Professor Daly in Geology 4 at 12 o'clock in the Geological Lecture Room...
Gold Discovered in Realm...
Then in the reign of Robert II, the 14th lineal hair of Oldman, gold was discovered in the Mosquito realm. Santos Zelaya, the heavy-fisted dictator of Nicaragua, promptly led an invading army into the Indian territory. Thus perished in 1894, after a short, sharp struggle, the sovereignty of the Mosquito Kings. Soldiers of fortune, gold-hunters, and all the scavengers of the Caribbean flocked into the conquered realm. Guatemala emerged after several years of political juggling, the owner of the Mosquito coast...