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...handful of boys are leaving Harvard. They leave behind a few great names, a few thousand dollars, a few thrilling moments, and Harvard. That is the heritage which they pass on "that generations yet unkown may tell it to their heirs." With them they take away an education, a sheaf of memories, and the name of Harvard. They have obtained more than they can ever give. They have seen the cabs drive up in an October fog to the Somerset, they have seen Sever in twilight, they have heard great men, they have wandered home at night...
Died. Aimée Dostoievsky, 56, daughter of Feodor Dostoievsky; in Bolzano, Italy; of tuberculosis. She had written a penetrating sutdy of her novelist father, whose death in 1881 was not recorded in the Occidental press, to which he was then unkown...
Debated a bill to provide refuges for migratory birds for so long a time that some Senators declared a filibuster (of unkown purpose) was in progress and signed a petition to apply cloture...
...north, this intrepid explorer, finding his vessel, the "Fram," solidly frozen in the ice, started with one companion, Johansen, for the unkown regions of the North Pole. They left their vessel, equipped with three sledges, two kyacks, and twenty-eight dogs, with provisions for the dogs for thirty days, and for themselves for one hundred days. When this stock was exhausted they lived on seal, walrus and bear meat, when they could get it. The account of the months these two hardy men spent in the polar regions is most thrilling. When a dog died or fell...