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Kermit Roosevelt and his brother Theodore Jr., returned recently from an expedition to the mountain fast-nesses of Asia, undertaken in the interests of the Field Museum of Chicago. The rare Ovis Poli was one of the baits that lured the expedition eastward, and the specimen that is to be presented to Harvard is the first one to make its appearance in New England...
...Significance. Need anything further be said to suggest that there has now been published a charming, witty and philosophical comedy of manners in the full regalia, atmosphere and personnel of Boston, 1850, and in the full flood of life anywhere, at any time? If so, let a specimen of the descriptive prose be here entered: "The March wind staggered about the Concord house, striking at doors, shaking shutters. By its sound you knew that it smelt of melting earth and sticky buds. Inside was a dingy, not unpleasant taint of coke burning in the Franklin grate, and a lingering fragrance...
...iniquity to enter upon with misgiving. Dreiser forgot the psychological and biological metamorphoses of youth; he failed to recall the kaleidoscopic fluctuations even of adolescence. And hence his vapid characterless lad assumed thanks to his consistent characterlessness, a firmness of character quite unbelievable. He is as paradoxically impossible a specimen as it is possible to have...
When Charles Lamb invented his category of "books which are not books", it probably did not enter his mind that a peculiar specimen with whole chapters in turn smudged and crisp, would later apply for admission. Very likely, if he could see one of them, he would be at a loss to explain the evident enthusiasm felt for the chapters so devastatingly conned. But to all who frequent Widener these volumes are common place. They are witness to a species of intellectual privation...
Besides answering verbal questions the Information Desk is the recipient of all written requests for information. The most unusual specimen of this type was received last week addressed to the "Harvard Lore of You". This momentarily baffled even the omniscient mind of the Information Desk until the meaning was made clear by an inquiry concurring the Harvard Law Review made by a person with a strong New England accent. The letter was from a prominent firm of lawyers and it is supposed that the mistake came in dictation on a too literal acceptance of super fluonser...