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...world's most eaten fish. It abounds in the northern Atlantic, swims in schools of hundreds of millions. Its infants are smoked, canned, sold as sardines. Its younger set, coming shoreward for the first time to spawn, are caught as whitebait. The largest, known as "herring king," is named shad. He is dark blue above, white beneath and carries as much as ten pounds of most delectable flesh. But?and this is the fact Mr. Hoover will emphasize?37,000,000 less pounds of shad were caught last year by fishermen than were caught 30 years ago. That...
...shining web of his prose. Hardy is damned; Balzac exalted; one learns that the writing of George Eliot is "without pleasure," that boiled chicken has never appeared on the table of George Moore, that the Lady of Shalott, is the one poem whereby "poor Tennyson" justifies his existence, that shad, the finest of all fish, has not been eaten in London in the last fifty years. "I cannot write," says Mr. Moore. "I have lost my taste for reading; I can only think." Someone recently stated that Mr. Moore had pimples on his soul. That, though not easily demonstrable...
...years, the shad fisheries have decreased their yield...
...detached gentleman who looks at life with the eyes of a reporter, yet lives, himself?a most difficult feat, and one which those cursed with too much sense of humor cannot accomplish. Yet there is no denying Mr. Johnson's sense of humor ?witness The Varmint, The Tennessee Shad, the later Skippy Bedelle...
...student who is not in the examination room within five minutes after the hour appointed for the examination shad not be admitted without permission of the instructor or of the officer in general charge of the examinations." Examinations Today. German 8, Upper Dane French 2aI, Upper Mass. Spanish 1, Lower Mass. Slavic 4, Upper Mass. Government 19 Upper Dane. Economics 8, Harvard 6. Economics 8a, Harvard 5. Land. Arch. 2, Robinson Hall. Land. Arch. 3. Robinson Hall. Mathematics EII, IV, Upper Mass Engineering 3a, Pierce 302 Engineering 7a. Lower Mass. Examinations Tomorrow. Latin 2, Sever 18 Class. Phil. 46, Sever...