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Whatever the reason for the lamentable lack of undergraduate geologists, it has prevented a thorough investigation of the geological problems of the University. An indication of what might be accomplished is given by the recent report on the terranean strata of Harvard Hall. Ground into the original wooden floor, which is occasionally exposed at the surface, there is a hard crystaline composition which defies analysis. This stratum the investigator likens to the Pre-Cambrian, and assumes to be of great antiquity. Upon this base are laid numerous formations which at recurring intervals indicate an accumulation of debris from the most...
...pictured as being surrounded by barbed wire nettings. This is a fairy story of desolating stupidity. During the 15 months of my Government one can say that the whole of Italy has passed through my office. I have seen hundreds of commissions and thousands of individuals from all social strata. I pride myself on not having refused any one, not even those who wished to speak to me of evidently futile things. "As for bad advisers, it should be sufficiently known by this time that I am not an easy man to influence. My decisions I reach by myself, often...
...Preventing all danger of slides in Culebra Cut by a series of concrete monoliths sunk through the sliding strata to solid rock below...
...There is, of course, the handsome American newspaperman. Newspapermen are always handsome on the stage, just as actresses are chronically impious in the headlines. The rumble of drums and the whispers of intrigue dwindle in time for American-Apache nuptials. The picture is distinctly in the upper strata of current cinema production...
...Observatory, which is a part of the University, and the most accurate forecaster of weather in the vicinity of Boston, went so far as to say that yesterday's cumulous clouds, which cut off the sun's rays, and which are caused by the cooling of the upper strata of air, would probably be absent today. As for a storm,--nearly out of the question. The low pressure storm area, which passed over Cambridge a few days ago, is now hundreds of miles off to the northeast, and will no longer affect this locality; the only low pressure area which...