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...zenith, as President Herbert Clark Hoover hastened the despatch of 10,000 Enfield rifles and multitudinous rounds of ammunition to the Mexican government, as despatches announced that poison gas would be used, God Mexitl must have ruefully reflected that his own symbolic arms are a shield made of reeds tufted with eagle's down, and a handful of spears, each with an eagle's tuft. The peculiar insignia of his godhead, the so-called "stellar mask" resembles only incidentally that worn by burglars, and its purpose is not to conceal but to exalt...
...Chapel Hill, N. C,, one Harry M. Sinclair,* baseball fielder, ran to retrieve a homerun. As he leaned to pick up the ball from a tuft of grass a small brown snake, of unknown breed, peeked up at him and bit him severely in the hand...
...shoebill heron injured at the Bronx Zoo is one of the most singular of all creatures. Five feet tall, grey, gaunt, spindly-legged, it lives naturally in the White Nile marshes. Its head is extraordinarily large, topped by a little curled tuft. The eyes scowl, when seen from the front, stare brightly in side aspect. Queerest is its great bill, which clacks-clacks hollowly when the bird gapes or preens itself. That bill closely resembles a shoe (whence the popular name "shoe-bill") or the head of a whale (hence the scientific name Balaeniceps...
...fellowships which are offered by Tufts College, are worth $1000 and free tuition, and are offered for study in English only. The awards as in the case of New York University are offered without restriction to graduates of any college or university, but candidates for the Tuft's fellowships are expected to be preparing themselves to teach or to do some graduate work. Furthermore the winner of the award will be expected to do some teaching in the department of English...
This competition is open to the Juniors and Seniors of 18 New England colleges. The institutions named as eligible are Amherst, Bates, Brown, Bowdoin, Boston University, Golby, Dartmouth, Harvard, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Middlebury, University of Maine, Norwich. Trinity, Tuft's University of Vermont, Wesleyan, Williams, and Yale...