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...chart and make possible some of our fjords for tourists to visit us. They have worked out our geology and other natural sciences and helped to publish information and record facts. For the last two years they ran a steamer, dubbed the "Wop", carrying freight, cement, sand, gravel, and rock for buildings, and coal and supplies for branch nursing stations and hospitals. They have run clothing stores and lumber camps. A Princeton coach ran a lumber mill and store. They have blazed trails, built winter tilts, run schools and special classes, unloaded coal and other schooners, cut and brought...
...often quoted by them, as the account of what befell a young man thoughtfully selecting a necktie one morning. It is hard to say to just which of our emotions or ideals this story appeals. The author of "College Life" intended it for an example of what "sand" will do in the way of escaping from an unfortunate predicament. To many who repeat the story, however, it illustrates that "ideal imperturbability" which is the core of "Harvard indifference"; the fickle public has a habit of appropriating a good story for its own use. Whatever text the episode represents, the fact...
...course we cannot hide our heads in the sand like that and expect to escape the imminent thunderstorm. Things are, unfortunately, happening in the world outside, and before we know it college students may begin to take a most indecorous interest in them--as perhaps they are already beginning to do. Nothing could be better calculated to forestall such an awareness of life on the part of undergraduates than the "contact with the members of cultured families" which Mr. Ehrensperger wisely recommends. By all means, Quincy Street before Ford Hall, the tea-wafer before the Bread of Life, the languid...
...pools in Oklahoma, Kansas, Ohio and elsewhere were doomed to early decline from this cause, and the present more serious decline of the Mexican fields arises in a similar manner. While not all oil-bearing strata contain salt water, the majority of them do; and where the strata (or "sands") are in the nature of limestone instead of being a true sand or sandstone stratum, the decline is very much greater than otherwise...
...these days, when detailed investigations of stratigraphy, structure, and sand conditions so frequently result in the discovery of new oil fields, and applause from oil companies and the public, geologists do well to walk humbly, and punctiliously to admit that the geologic principles controlling the distribution of oil and gas have as yet been discovered only in part, and that what remains yet to be learned is probably vastly more than what is already known...