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Years ago the problem was easily settled. Spring began when the Boylston Professor took his first stroll of the season in the Yard in company with his favorite cow. But the cow died; now it is somebody's duty to find another way to be certain about spring...
...down the streets of Pasadena, Calif, last week. According to his usual custom he wore no hat. His stubborn hair stood on end, its whiteness making his brown eyes seem black. He probably did not realize that the U. S. scientists who occasionally join him in his daily stroll hold their own hats at their sides out of deference to him. Dr. Einstein had been in Pasadena for three weeks. His Frau Elsa had established him comfortably in a seven-room English bungalow. Every morning he works in his study, in afternoons chats with Pasadena scientists or attends advanced seminars...
...number of students that make use of the facilities of the main reading room of Widener has quadrupled. Because of this the conditions for studying are far from ideal. Not the least obstacle to concentration is the loud, and for the most part unnecessary, talking of those who stroll among the tables and converse with friends. An equally annoying abuse is the unsportsmanlike practice of taking more books from the shelves than can be used at one time. This is a method of insuring a book for use, but if the book can not be read for some time...
...myrtle, the birds rose and were shot at. Most sportsmen who go to Scotland after Aug. 12 and before the end of September, go because they know, or want to learn, the rules of a peculiar, a social kind of shooting. No lone hunter with dog and gun can stroll into the brush. The grouse industry is so well organized that to shoot one must rent or own a moor or get invited by someone who does. Rents are based on the bags of grouse that game- keepers estimate can be raised on the property. The usual price is about...
Governor Liu Huan-yen of Kwangsi Province went out for a stroll in his garden one evening last week, followed as usual by his bodyguard. As the Governor stooped to admire the moonlike beauty of a lotus blossom, a shot rang out. Down he crumpled in the garden path mortally wounded, died later in hospital...