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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...present flood of travel books will do little to add to the popularity of the class. The author, whom the reader may remember as displaying narrative power to a high degree in "Beasts, Men and Gods" wanders rather confusedly through the French colonies in western tropical Africa and the result is less a description of the country he traversed than an airing of the author's theories on various subjects...
...City with transportation facilities when that city has a population of 30,000,000 inhabitants. On these lines, trains of 125 cars each will travel at the rate of 70 miles per hour and above. It is expected that economy and better service as well as increased efficiency will result...
Moreover, "no plan for the development of the region between Mount Auburn Street and the Charles River should be considered which is not the result of long study, and of planning ahead for the future," writes Chairman Pond. After stating its hypothesis of a new and second Yard, the Council report reads, "The plan attached is merely a rough sketch intended to portray the Council's ideas. It does not pretend to be final or entirely accurate. The whole scheme should be gone over by competent architectural and landscape advisors. It is the basic idea which we consider sound...
...income of the Museum has been so entirely insufficient for its needs, that maintenance of the absolutely necessary daily work has required the practice of extreme economy and much effort. Largely as a result of this condition there has been an absence of modernization, and there is today an entire absence of the most ordinary labor-saving appliances and facilities for work. The same reasons have led to conditions inimical to the teaching and research study which should be the primary objects of a university museum...
...result, probably, of the avoidance of expense, the collection was also almost wholly devoid of descriptive labels. By estimation, about 90 percent of the specimens were unlabelled, except as each set of specimens was marked with the name of the collector or donor. In this condition, a collection, no matter how valuable, is extremely difficult of comprehension by students, and indeed the interest which the intelligent public can take in it is greatly diminished. Again, the many duplicates, indestructible, and other objects, which for one reason or another are not on display, are, for lack of proper storage facilities, tucked...