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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...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 who have become killers when driven out of their tribe by the hostility of tribal females...
...world growing yearly more democratic, on the threshold of a great naval disarmament conference, new editions of the intransigeant annuals of blue bloods and battleships came last week from their respective publishers: the squat red Almanach de Gotha and long blue Jane's Fighting Ships. In recent years, editing the 167-year-old Almanach de Gotha, "genealogical, diplomatic and statistical annual," has been no mean task. Bound by tradition to list only the members of regal, princely and ducal families, the genteel editors have been obliged by a shortage of European aristocracy to fill their sedate pages with such...
...Recent statistic: In the U. S., one tub to every 20 persons; one automobile to every seven...
Boston claims the distinction of being the most musical city in the U. S., but its recent operatic ventures have done little to support the claim. Last spring a so-called National Opera Company came into existence there, died in a week. Last month a Cosmopolitan Opera Company closed its run abruptly because singers refused to sing unpaid...
...difficulties of getting a full and fair vote for the election of class officers, which has been the center of recent discussion over the senior elections, have given rise to a new attempt at their solution. At Amherst there has been proposed a system which, it is thought, will provide for a fair vote and will allow a full gauging of undergraduate preference both in nomination and final election...