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...with steel tendons which is Fascist Italy! We can take a little rest in order shortly to accelerate the tempo of our march. All public works not strictly necessary must be postponed. We propose to give the Italian taxpayers a period of repose. Dazio Consumo* [intercity taxation] is a relic of the Middle Ages now maintained only in France, Greece and Italy. It must be abolished...
During the past summer, aided by a grant from the Milton Fund for Research, I spent practically all of July and August and part of September hunting for more of these endemic and relic species on or near the Long Range of Newfoundland and, although it will take all winter to work out the results at the Gray Herbarium, it is safe to state that my party, including Mr. Bayard Long of the Philadelphia Academy of Sciences, and my former student. John M. Fogg, Jr., Ph.D. '29, brought back more than 250 such species, many of them hitherto quite unknown...
...species which constitute this relic-flora must have lived right through the last glacial period where they are; and a study of the other regions of the Northern Hemisphere which were not invaded by the last ice-sheets has shown an exactly parallel situation. In these spots, then, we have relies of an ancient flora which in regions of very recent glaciation has been completely exterminated. From a purely evolutionary point of view, these old plants are particularly interesting because they are species with very sharply defined characteristics and are now so fixed in their fundamental characters that they show...
...December Hour examinations in elementary courses has always been reminiscent of compulsory chapel attendance or some other relic of a bygone era. As such they are probably beneficial to the freshly matriculated student, acting as a check on his proclivities to let the daily assignments slide before the Midyears. Their presence in advanced courses, besides being unnecessary, places an undesirable strain on his preparation for course theses...
...battered Studebaker car with a Massachusetts license had been seen near Pach's studio. Teasing telegrams arrived at the office of the Yale Daily News. A message from Winter Park, Fla., said that the Fence was being nibbled by alligators. From Niagara Falls came word that the relic had been seen tumbling over the cataract. In Chicago someone was holding "the third rail of the Fence." Other telegrams came from Seattle, Poughkeepsie, Cambridge, Mass. All were signed "Algernon Gustavson...