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Alumni laden with thermos bottles and steamer rugs, return to Cambridge each year to find that dynamite and the steam-shovel have obliterated more and more memories, and that steel and stone have combined to cover them as completely as if they had never been. With the present ambitious and comprehensive building program of the University, surprises are plentiful for the graduates...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Returning Graduates Find Many Landmarks Obliterated By Encroaching Stone and Mortar--Traditions Fading | 11/6/1926 | See Source »

Plymouth--"The Butter and Egg Man"--8.20 o'clock. A fool and his money at 200 per cent. You'll shovel and like...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WHAT'S GOING ON IN BOSTON TONIGHT | 11/5/1926 | See Source »

...explained Dr. Mather to a CRIMSON reporter yesterday. "Determined to give the sow a decent buried, he carried its carcass to a swamp in one corner of the property and began to dig a grave. A few feet below the surface, he struck a hard substance with his shovel. Temporarily diverted, he cleared away the soil from the hard substance and discovered a giant ivory tusk...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MATHER UNEARTHS MASTODON REMAINS | 10/13/1926 | See Source »

...When he had convinced himself that his find was really ivory, the farmer tossed away his shovel, dashed for his Ford, and whirled off to Johnstown without a backward glance for his prostrate porker...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MATHER UNEARTHS MASTODON REMAINS | 10/13/1926 | See Source »

...there will be other shovels. When Pegasus wings and muses buskin off, there will come the welcome biss of perhaps a firmer representation of man's greatest feat the steam shovel. And man ever quick to have faith, will discover the unity in multiplicity, the permanence in change and the class of 1930 will again have amusement...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "GONE ARE THE DAYS" | 10/9/1926 | See Source »

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