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Last week came more news of kinetic, scrub-brush-headed Professor Valdemaras. Into the woods near Kroettingen he innocently disappeared with two friends. Ostensibly they had set out for a walk. When they came to a road, a car quietly pulled up alongside them. Professor Valdemaras & friends had started to get in when up sprang an alert guard, ordering them to halt. Vainly did the Professor argue that he was just going to take "a little ride in the country...
...fair as it pretends to be. After this investigation is finished there can be some assurance that the methods used by the University towards its employees is just and also that Harvard's reputation in the press will not meet with another such strain from the odoriferous Scrub Women affair. At least one sore is healed...
THIS is the rawest book I have ever seen. It is like a burnt over forest of scrub pine. There is not one bit of human warmth in its two hundred fifty odd pages, just the lowest form of men and women crawling over bleak rock with one cut throat instinct "to persist". To say the book is depressing is to say nothing. "Bottom Dogs" is a social document of man neither civilized nor un-civilized...
Despite the fact that little more than a score of couples attended the Scrub women's Ball on Wednesday the Harvard Square Deal Association last night in a statement to the press said the dance was "quite satisfactory as regards attendance and finances". No definition as to meaning of the word "satisfactory" was, however, given...
...world's last heath cock. All his fellows and all heath hens are dead. This heath fowl, a North American grouse, is a close relative of the prairie chicken and about the same size. A mottled grey, his protective coloring makes him practically invisible among the scrub oaks which he frequents. Plenteous 75 years ago, the birds dwindled until 1907 when protective measures were taken. By 1916 they had increased until there were several thousand on Martha's Vineyard. Then a forest fire destroyed practically all of them. Steadily the survivors died off until at present there...