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...immodest after all. It includes one "probably" and one "perhaps," and says nothing at all about the Bussey Institute, the graduate school of arts and sciences, the glass flowers, the recent gratifying football experience with Yale, and the permanent rustication of a young man who wafted a specimen of citrus fruit at Rudy. If this appeal does not make graduates loosen up, they have no sense of relative values and no dollars for absolute worth. Boston Herald...
...mistake though-Annette Kellerman didn't give any exhibition in Prospero's Cave, at least no swimming or diving exhibition. The place is called "Devil's Hole" by both tourists and natives. A hellish name, if you ask me. Anyway, the "Hole" is populated with a specimen of every fish found in the surrounding waters from turtles to octopi. "Old Joe," the keeper, secretly told me, as he told every other tourist that ever visited the place, "Annette Kellerman had some movin' pitchers tooken as she sat on that 'er ledge throwing bread crums...
Wrapped in a newspaper dated 1902 and containing on the sport page a picture of Terrible Terry McGovern, the prize fighter, the cat's body was found wedged in a niche among the floor supports seemingly as well preserved as any specimen to be found in the Agassiz Museum...
...Clifford. He should be a man of some distinction in his own right; often he will come to the aspirant of his own accord after the season is well advanced. In not having obeyed Rule i Ohio's Bulkley (to continue with him as a handy specimen) is not yet at any disadvantage since his fellow Harvard man, Governor Roosevelt of New York, and that Johns Hopkins bachelor, four-time Governor Ritchie of Maryland, have neither of them found their greatest & best friends vet, and Owen D. Young will require a whole distinguished reception committee before he will admit...
Ohio's Bulkley having been taken as a timely specimen, and also because of all mentionable specimens he is the least known, it is only fair to describe...